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Lucretius

Lat: 8.2°S, Long: 120.8°W, Diam: 63 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside), Imbrian

left: Clementine . right: LROC . Lucretius sits on top of Orientale Basin ejecta blanket.

Titus Lucretius Carus; Roman scientific philosopher (c. 94-55 B.C.).

Lucretius was among the long list of farside names approved by the IAU in 1970 and published in Menzel, 1971.
In the planning for Apollo 8, the first manned circumlunar mission (1968), this crater (which did not then have an official name) was referred to informally as"Williams", a name that should properly have been used for a completely different nearside crater (source: Phil Stooke's LPOD).

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