Lippershey (crater)

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Lippershey is a small, bowl -shaped impact crater in the southwest of the moon in the east front of the plane of the Mare Nubium, northeast of the crater Pitatus and west of Purbach.

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 by the Dutch optician Hans Lippershey.

Near side of the Moon Pitatus (crater) Purbach (crater) International Astronomical Union
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