Hutton (lunar crater)

lunar crater data
latitude=37.3
N_or_S=N
longitude=168.7
E_or_W=E
diameter=50 km
depth="Unknown"
colong=192
eponym=James Hutton

Hutton is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the northwest of the larger Shayn crater, and to the north of Nušl crater.

Hutton is a worn, circular crater with a largely symmetrical appearance. Its features include a small craterlet across the western rim, some slight disruption to the northern rim, and an eroded, ledge-like form along the southern inner wall. The interior floor has an elongated central ridge at the mid-point, and a smaller ridge offset to the east, but it is otherwise marked only by tiny craterlets and a few small hills.

atellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Hutton crater.

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