Kondratyuk (crater)
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 Apollo 15 mapping camera image of Kondratyuk. North is in upper left. Kondratyuk A is at top, Kondratyuk Q at bottom. | |
| Coordinates | 15°20′S 115°48′E / 15.33°S 115.80°E |
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| Diameter | 97.97 km (60.88 mi) |
| Depth | Unknown |
| Colongitude | 245° at sunrise |
| Eponym | Yuri V. Kondratyuk |
Kondratyuk is a worn crater on the Moon's far side. It is located to the west-northwest of the large walled plain Fermi, and to the northeast of the crater Hilbert. To the north-northwest is Meitner, and to the northeast lies Langemak.
This is an eroded crater formation with a rim that has been partly damaged by subsequent impacts. The small, sharp-rimmed satellite crater Kondratyuk A lies on the interior floor, along the northeast inner wall. In the southwest part of the floor is Kondratyuk Q.
Prior to formal naming by the IAU in 1970,[1] Kondratyuk was called Crater 278.[2] It is named in honor of Yuri Kondratyuk, a Ukrainian and Soviet engineer and mathematician, who fought and died in World War II, as a volunteer of the Red Army.