Hoffmeister is a lunar

Moon

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 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...

 that is located on the Moon

Moon

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's far side, to the northwest of the huge walled plain Mendeleev

Mendeleev (crater)

Mendeleev is a large lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, as seen from the Earth. The southern rim of this walled plain just crosses the lunar equator. Intruding into the eastern rim of Mendeleev is the crater Schuster...

. Some distance to the north of Hoffmeister lies the crater Siedentopf

Siedentopf (crater)

Siedentopf is a worn impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the east-southeast of the larger crater Vernadskiy. Farther to the south is Hoffmeister....

, and to the west-northwest is Gavrilov

Gavrilov (crater)

Gavrilov is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the south of the heavily eroded crater Vernadskiy, and north of Vetchinkin.This is a circular and relatively symmetric crater formation with some erosion of the outer rim...

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This is a somewhat eroded crater with Hoffmeister N attached to the southern rim. A small crater with a high albedo

Albedo

Albedo , or reflection coefficient, is the diffuse reflectivity or reflecting power of a surface. It is defined as the ratio of reflected radiation from the surface to incident radiation upon it...

lies along the common rim between Hoffmeister and this satellite. A small crater also lies along the northwestern rim of Hoffmeister. The interior floor of Hoffmeister is relatively featureless.

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 Hoffmeister.

Hoffmeister	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
D	16.9° N	140.3° E	21 km
F	14.7° N	141.0° E	19 km
N	13.7° N	136.4° E	42 km
Z	17.8° N	136.7° E	29 km