Faye is a heavily eroded
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impact crater
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in the rugged southern
highlands
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of the
Moon
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. It is named after French astronomer
Hervé Faye
Hervé Auguste Étienne Albans Faye ( – ) was a French astronomer, born at Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (Indre) and educated at the École Polytechnique, which he left in 1834, before completing his course, to accept a position in the Paris Obse ...
.
It is attached to the northeastern rim of the crater
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, with
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located just a few kilometers to the northeast. It forms part of a chain of craters of increasing size to the southwest that continues with
La Caille
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and ends with the walled plain
Purbach.
The rim of Faye is heavily damaged, particularly along the western half and covers much of the southwestern interior floor. The rim is nearly non-existent in the northwest, where a gap joins the interior with the surrounding
terrain
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. The surviving interior floor is relatively featureless, with a central peak rising at the midpoint. There is a small craterlet and the incised remnant of a small crater rim in the northeast part of the floor.
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 Faye.
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External links
Faye at The Moon Wiki
Impact craters on the Moon
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