Kulik is a
lunar
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impact crater
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that lies on the northern
hemisphere
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In geometry
* Hemisphere (geometry), a half of a sphere
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* A hemisphere of Earth
** Northern Hemisphere
** Southern Hemisphere
** Eastern Hemisphere
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of the
Moon
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far side. The outer rim of this crater has been heavily impacted, particularly along the northern side which is almost entirely overlain by a pair of smaller craters. The southern inner wall is also marked by a cluster of small impacts, and there are small craters across the western rim and notching the eastern inner wall. The interior floor is nearly featureless, but a small central peak rises near the midpoint.
This crater lies about a crater diameter to the south of the crater
Stoletov, and due west of the large
Fowler. To the west is
Schneller.
Prior to formal naming by the
IAU
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in 1970, Kulik was called ''Crater 80''.
Lunar Farside Chart (LFC-1A)
2nd Edition October 1967
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 Kulik.
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Impact craters on the Moon