Lipskiy (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	2.2° S, 179.5° E
Diameter	80 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	180° at sunrise
Eponym	Yuriy N. Lipskiy

Lipskiy is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies just to the south of the lunar equator, and is the closest named crater to the antipode of the Earth zenith point. That is, it lies in the region of the Moon that is the most distant from the Earth. Lipskiy is located less than a crater diameter to the north of the prominent Daedalus crater. To the northeast is Krasovskiy crater.

The crater has been heavily damaged and disrupted by subsequent impacts, leaving a formation that is scarcely recognizable as a crater. The rim and the interior are very irregular, and are overlaid by several smaller impacts. The most notable of these are 'Lipskiy V' along the northwestern edge and 'Lipskiy S' is located just to the west of the mid-point.

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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 Lipskiy crater.

Lipskiy	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
S	2.2° S	179.9° W	23 km
V	1.2° S	178.7° E	36 km
X	0.4° N	178.9° E	24 km

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