Bohr (crater)

lunar crater data
latitude=12.8
N_or_S=N
longitude=86.4
E_or_W=W
diameter=71 km
depth="Unknown"
colong=87
eponym=Niels Bohr

Bohr is a lunar crater that is located near the western lunar limb, in the area that is affected by librations. It is attached to the southwestern rim of the larger, eroded Vasco da Gama formation, and to the southeast of the crater Einstein, the latter being named after a fellow physicist.

The rim of Bohr crater is worn and eroded, and a pair of small, bowl-shaped craters lie across the western rim. The rim to the northeast has been shored up by the adjacent Vasco da Gama, but the remainder forms an irregular ring of rugged ground. To the southwest of Bohr is a valley formation following a path in a north-south direction. This long cleft is most likely associated with the formation of the Mare Orientale further to the south.

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