Kostinskiy

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Kostinskiy - and Rimae Kostinskiy

Lat: 14.7°N, Long: 118.8°E, Diam: 75 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside)

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Upper image: Clementine .
Lower image: LROC. Floor-fractured crater Kostinskiy lies at the western border of the farside highlands; the crater at the bottom left corner of the image is Guyot.
Note the system of pronounced rilles on the floor of Kostinskiy. They never received an official name. Let's call them Rimae Kostinskiy.

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Maps

(LAC zone 65A2) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description


Description: Wikipedia

Kostinskiy

Additional Information

Curious chain of depressions north-northwest of Kostinskiy D: http://bit.ly/2F8g50S

Nomenclature

Sergey Konstantinovich; Soviet astronomer (1867-1936).
Rimae Kostinskiy (an unofficial name from D.Caes for the system of pronounced rilles on the floor of Kostinskiy).

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