Inghirami is a lunar

impact crater An impact crater is a depression (geology), depression in the surface of a solid astronomical body formed by the hypervelocity impact event, impact of a smaller object. In contrast to volcanic craters, which result from explosion or internal c ...

that is located toward the southwestern limb of the

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. It lies to the southwest of the large walled plain Schickard. Northwest of Inghirami is the wide

Vallis Inghirami Vallis Inghirami (latin for Inghirami Valley) is a valley on the Moon. Diameter of the valley is about 145 km. It is named after Giovanni Inghirami, and the name was approved by IAU The International Astronomical Union (IAU; , UAI) is an in ...

, a wide, straight valley that is radial to the

Mare Orientale Mare Orientale (Latin ''orientāle'', the "eastern sea") is a lunar mare. It is located on the western border of the near side and far side of the Moon, and is difficult to see from an Earthbound perspective. Images from spacecraft have revea ...

impact basin. The valley has a length of about 140 kilometers and ends at the northern edge of the crater. Inghirami is located near the southeastern edge of the immense skirt of ejecta that surrounds the Mare Orientale. This material has formed linear ridges and valleys that continue across most of the crater rim and interior from the northwestern face. Much of the outer rim has been modified by this impact material, and the most intact part of the rim lies along the southeast edge. The partly buried rim of this crater is roughly circular and somewhat irregular. There are some shelves and

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s along the sides, but these features are moderately eroded. A few small craters lie along or near the rim. The most notable crater on the interior floor is a small impact beside the eastern inner wall. The interior floor retains its ridges, streaky appearance across much of the crater, with only an area by the eastern rim being relatively flat and featureless. Inghirami is a crater of

Nectarian The Nectarian Period of the lunar geologic timescale was from 3.920 billion years ago to 3.850 billion years ago. It is the period during which the Nectaris Basin and other major basins were formed by large impact events. Ejecta from Nectaris for ...

age. Inghirami lies to the east of the

Mendel-Rydberg Basin The Mendel-Ryberg Basin is a NectarianThe geologic history of the Moon

Giovanni Inghirami Giovanni Inghirami, Piarists, Sch.P., (April 16, 1779 – August 15, 1851) was an Italian astronomer, as well as being a Catholic priest and Piarist. There is a List of valleys on the Moon, valley on the moon named Vallis Inghirami after him as w ...

by the

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in 1935.

Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Inghirami.

References

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