Agatharchides is a lunar

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 crater

Impact crater

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 located at the southern edge of Oceanus Procellarum

Oceanus Procellarum

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, in the region between the Mare Humorum

Mare Humorum

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 and Mare Nubium

Mare Nubium

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. To the east-southeast is the crater Bullialdus

Bullialdus (crater)

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, and to the south-southwest lies Loewy

Loewy (crater)

Loewy is a small lunar crater that lies along the eastern rim of Mare Humorum, in the southwest part of the Moon's near side. This is a lava-flooded formation that lies to the southwest of the larger, lava-flooded crater Agatharchides...

. It is named after the Greek

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 geographer

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 Agatharchides

Agatharchides

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The interior of the crater has been inundated by lava

Lava

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in the past, resurfacing the floor. The damaged outer wall varies considerably in height, ranging from level with the surface to rising as high as 1.5 km. The most intact portions of the wall are along the east and the west-southwest, while the rim is nearly non-existent to the north and heavily damaged to the south. A small craterlet lies along the western rim. The interior floor is marked only by a few tiny craterlets.

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 Agatharchides.

Agatharchides	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	23.2° S	28.4° W	16 km
B	21.5° S	31.6° W	7 km
C	22.0° S	32.9° W	12 km
E	20.7° S	33.0° W	15 km
F	20.3° S	31.8° W	6 km
G	20.1° S	26.7° W	6 km
H	20.4° S	33.9° W	15 km
J	21.6° S	32.5° W	13 km
K	21.0° S	27.4° W	11 km
L	21.1° S	26.7° W	8 km
N	21.1° S	29.6° W	22 km
O	19.2° S	26.6° W	5 km
P	20.2° S	28.7° W	66 km
R	18.3° S	30.7° W	5 km
S	17.7° S	30.5° W	3 km
T	18.2° S	27.7° W	5 km