Landsteiner (crater)
Lunar Orbiter 4 image | |
| Coordinates | 31°18′N 14°48′W / 31.3°N 14.8°W |
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| Diameter | 6 km |
| Depth | 1.4 km |
| Colongitude | 13° at sunrise |
| Eponym | Karl Landsteiner |
Landsteiner is a tiny, bowl-shaped lunar impact crater in the central Mare Imbrium. It was named after Austrian-American pathologist and Nobel laureate Karl Landsteiner. It is a circular, cup-shaped feature with no appreciable erosion. Nearby to the south is a low wrinkle ridge named the Dorsum Grabau. Farther south is the prominent crater Timocharis.
This feature was identified as Timocharis F before being renamed by the IAU.