Rutherford is a small
lunar
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Arts and entertainment
* ''Lunar'' (series), a series of video games
* "Lunar" (song), by David Guetta
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impact crater
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that lies on the
Moon
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's
far side
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. It was named after New Zealand-British physicist and Nobel laureate
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics.
''Encyclopædia Britannica'' considers him to be the greatest ...
.
It is located just to the north-northwest of the huge walled plain
Mendeleev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (sometimes transliterated as Mendeleyev or Mendeleef) ( ; russian: links=no, Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев, tr. , ; 8 February Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._27_January.html" ;"title="O ...
. To the east of Rutherford is the equally diminutive crater
Glauber, and to the west-northwest lies
Hoffmeister.
This crater has a roughly pear-shaped outline, with an elongated section at the north-northwestern end. The rim edge is well-defined and the inner walls are simple slopes that run down to the small interior floor.
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LTO-66A3 Rutherford— L&PI
topographic map
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Impact craters on the Moon