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    prominent ray crater Tycho. It is named for the Jesuit priest Christopher Clavius. Clavius is one of the largest craters of Nectarian age. Clavius' location...
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    correspondence) Clavius' complete mathematical works (5 volumes, Mainz, 1611–1612) are available online . Asteroid 20237 Clavius Clavius (crater), a lunar crater named...
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    three quarters the diameter of Clavius, which lies to the southwest. Just to the north of Maginus is the smaller crater Proctor, and to the southeast is...
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    lunar impact crater that is located in the southern part of the Moon, and lies across the northeastern rim of the huge walled plain Clavius. Although generally...
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    water on the sunlit surface of the Moon, in the vicinity of the crater Clavius (crater), obtained by the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy...
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    Rutherfurd is a lunar impact crater located entirely within the southern rim of the much larger crater Clavius. The crater Porter is located to the north-northeast...
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    some prominent craters on the near side of the Moon: Albategnius (131 km) Aristarchus (40 km) Aristoteles (88 km) Bailly (301 km) Clavius (231 km) Copernicus...
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    southwestern part of Fracastorius (crater), and a section of the western wall of Plato (crater). A special filter wheel called a "crater extinction device" is capable...
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  • Moon craters: Clavius (crater) Kircher (crater) Riccioli (crater) https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2019/07/12/why-are-so-many-craters...
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    lunar impact crater that lies to the west of the enormous walled plain Clavius. To the southeast near the rim of Clavius is the crater Blancanus. The...
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