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Avogadro is an ancient lunar
Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
 crater
Impact crater

In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with larger body....
 that is located in the northern hemisphere
Sphere

A sphere is a symmetrical geometrical object. In non-mathematical usage, the term is used to refer either to a round ball or to its two-dimensional surface....
 on the far side of the Moon
Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
. The formation has been heavily worn and eroded by subsequent impacts, so that the rim is now little more than a rounded edge surrounding the crater depression. The crater floor is equally worn, being covered in a multitude of smaller craters of various sizes. Many of these smaller craters have also been eroded, leaving little more than a faint trace on the surface.

Nearby craters of note include Tikhov
Tikhov (lunar crater)

Tikhov is an eroded Moon impact crater on the Moon's Far side . It is nearly attached to the east-southeastern outer rim of the larger crater Avogadro ....
, which is nearly attached to the southeast rim, Oberth
Oberth (crater)

Oberth is a Impact crater on the Far side of the Moon. It lies in the high northern latitudes, to the southeast of the crater Gamow . To the east of Oberth is Avogadro ....
 to the west, and Schjellerup
Schjellerup (crater)

Schjellerup is a Moon impact crater that is located in the far northern latitutes on the Moon's Far side . This crater lies to the southwest of the larger Karpinskiy , and to the northeast of Gamow ....
 to the north-northwest.






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Avogadro is an ancient lunar
Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
 crater
Impact crater

In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with larger body....
 that is located in the northern hemisphere
Sphere

A sphere is a symmetrical geometrical object. In non-mathematical usage, the term is used to refer either to a round ball or to its two-dimensional surface....
 on the far side of the Moon
Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
. The formation has been heavily worn and eroded by subsequent impacts, so that the rim is now little more than a rounded edge surrounding the crater depression. The crater floor is equally worn, being covered in a multitude of smaller craters of various sizes. Many of these smaller craters have also been eroded, leaving little more than a faint trace on the surface.

Nearby craters of note include Tikhov
Tikhov (lunar crater)

Tikhov is an eroded Moon impact crater on the Moon's Far side . It is nearly attached to the east-southeastern outer rim of the larger crater Avogadro ....
, which is nearly attached to the southeast rim, Oberth
Oberth (crater)

Oberth is a Impact crater on the Far side of the Moon. It lies in the high northern latitudes, to the southeast of the crater Gamow . To the east of Oberth is Avogadro ....
 to the west, and Schjellerup
Schjellerup (crater)

Schjellerup is a Moon impact crater that is located in the far northern latitutes on the Moon's Far side . This crater lies to the southwest of the larger Karpinskiy , and to the northeast of Gamow ....
 to the north-northwest. To the south-southwest is the crater Yamamoto
Yamamoto (crater)

Yamamoto is a damaged Moon Impact crater that is located to the north of the large walled plain D'Alembert . To the north-northeast is the crater Avogadro ....
, and farther to the south is the large walled plain D'Alembert
D'Alembert (crater)

D'Alembert is a large Moon impact crater located in the northern hemisphere on the Far side of the Moon, to the northeast of the somewhat smaller walled plain Campbell ....
.

Satellite craters

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 Avogadro.

AvogadroLatitudeLongitudeDiameter
D64.4° N169.5° E20 km