Burnham is a small crater

Impact crater

In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...

 located to the southeast of the crater Albategnius

Albategnius (crater)

Albategnius is an ancient lunar impact crater located in the central highlands. It is named after the Muslim astronomer and scientist Al-Battani. The level interior forms a "walled plain", surrounded by the high, terraced rim. The outer wall is somewhat hexagon-shaped, and has been heavily eroded...

, in a relatively smooth area of the lunar

Moon

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 surface. To the southwest is Vogel

Vogel (lunar crater)

Vogel is a small lunar impact crater located to the southeast of Albategnius. It is the smallest member of a trio of craters that increase in size from north to south, consisting of Vogel, Argelander and Airy. To the west is the remnant of the crater Parrot....

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The irregular tooth-like shape of the rim of Burnham protrudes to the southwest, giving the wall a distorted, asymmetric appearance. There are breaks in the rim to the northwest and southwest, the later forming a valley running about 15 km. The interior floor is rough and irregular, and lacks anything resembling a central peak. The crater is otherwise unremarkable.

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 Burnham.

Burnham	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	14.8° S	7.1° E	7 km
B	15.3° S	7.3° E	4 km
F	14.3° S	6.9° E	9 km
K	13.6° S	7.4° E	3 km
L	14.2° S	7.6° E	4 km
M	14.1° S	9.0° E	9 km
T	14.7° S	9.6° E	4 km