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  1. Diameter85 km (53.4 miles)
    Depth4.7 km (2.9 mi)
    Colongitude12° at sunrise
    Age and description

    Tycho is a relatively young crater, with an estimated age of 108 million years (Ma), based on analysis of samples of the crater ray recovered during the Apollo 17 mission. This age initially suggested that the impactor m… See more

    Names

    Tycho is named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. Like many of the craters on the Moon's near side, it was given its name by the Jesuit astronomer G.B. Riccioli, whose 1651 nomenclature system has becom… See more

    Fictional references

    • There is a chapter entitled "Tycho" in Jules Verne's Around the Moon (Autour de la Lune, 1870) which describes the crater and its ray system.
    • In R.A. Heinlein's 1940 short story "Blowups H… See more

    Gallery

    • March 2007 lunar eclipse. The advancing shadow of Earth brings out detail on the lunar surface. The huge ray system emanating from Tycho is shown as the dominant feature on the southern hemisphere. … See more

     
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