Loewy (crater)

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Loewy is a 22 km impact crater in the southwest of the Moon front on the eastern edge of the Mare Humorum, southwest of the larger crater Agatharchides and northwest of Hippalus. The rim is eroded, flooded the interior of the lavas of Mare. In the southwest of the crater to the Mare level is opened to.

The crater was officially named in 1935 by the IAU by the French astronomer Maurice Loewy, the main author of the Paris Moon Atlas from 1896 to 1910. Named after the second author, equally large lunar craters Puiseux located on the opposite edge of the Mare Humorum.