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Here is part two of the Inconstant Moon Catalog - summary details of all of the features mentioned in the guide. "Class" refers to the crater classification given in Ralph Baldwin's The Measure of the Moon. "Rukl" indicates the chart number in Antonin Rukl's Atlas of the Moon - click on this to see the corresponding page in Akkana Peck's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon.

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FABRICIUS crater
Diameter: 48 miles
Depth: 14500'
Class: 2
Rukl: 68
2500' multiple central peaks.

FECUNDITATIS Mare
Dimensions: 450 x 350 miles
Roughly diamond shape towards east.

FRIGORIS Mare
Dimensions: 700 x 50 miles
Long thin strip roughly parallel with northern limb of Moon.

FURNERIUS crater
Diameter: 81 miles
Depth: 11000'
Class: 3
Rukl: 69
Walled plain.

FURNERIUS A crater
Diameter: 9 miles
Depth: 3500'
Rukl: 69
Young.

GALILAEI crater
English name: Galileo
Diameter: 10 miles
Depth: 6500'
Class: 1
Rukl: 28

GAUSS crater
Diameter: 112 miles
Depth: 13000'
Rukl: 16
Very old walled plain.

GASSENDI crater
Diameter: 70 miles
Depth: 6500'
Class: 5
Rukl: 52
Walled plain.

GEMINUS crater
Diameter: 53 miles
Depth: 9500'
Class: 1
Rukl: 16
5000' multiple central peaks.

GIORDANO BRUNO crater
Diameter: 12 miles
Class: 1
Rukl: III
Extremely recent crater, with documented impact.

GOLDSCHMIDT crater
Diameter: 77 miles
Depth: 7500'
Class: 5
Rukl: 4
Very old walled plain.

GRIMALDI crater
Diameter: 145 miles
Depth: 10500'
Class: 5
Rukl: 39
Walled plain with dark floor.

GUTENBERG crater
Diameter: 45 miles
Depth: 7500'
Class: 5
Rukl: 48
1500' multiple central peaks.

HAINZEL crater
Diameter: 58 miles
Depth: 10500'
Rukl: 63
Triple crater formation.

HANSTEEN crater
Diameter: 29 miles
Depth: 4000'
Class: 5
Rukl: 40

HECATAEUS crater
Diameter: 87 miles
Depth: 15500'
Rukl: 60
Young walled plain with 1000' central peak.

HEDIN crater
Diameter: 90 miles
Depth: 6500'
Rukl: 28
Very old walled plain.

HERCULES crater
Diameter: 45 miles
Depth: 12500'
Class: 1
Rukl: 14

HERSCHEL crater
Diameter: 25 miles
Depth: 13000'
Class: 1
Rukl: 44
5000' multiple central peaks.

HERSCHEL, JOHN crater
Diameter: 105 miles
Depth: 5500'
Rukl: 2
Extremely old, disintegrated walled plain.

HESIODUS crater
Diameter: 26 miles
Depth: 4500'
Class: 5
Rukl: 54
Very old.

HESIODUS A crater
Diameter: 9 miles
Rukl: 54
Double concentric crater.

HUMBOLDT crater
Diameter: 125 miles
Depth: 15500'
Class: 2
Rukl: 60
Walled plain.

HUMBOLDTIANUM Mare
Dimensions: 170 x 145 miles
Rukl: 7
On north-eastern limb.

HUMORUM Mare
Dimensions: 275 x 250 miles
Oval in south-west.

IMBRIUM Mare
Dimensions: 750 x 670 miles
Massive oval in north-west, largely ringed by mountains.

INGHIRAMI crater
Diameter: 62 miles
Depth: 11000'
Class: 2
Rukl: 62
4000' central peak.

IRIDIUM Sinus
Dimensions: 160 miles across
Rukl: 10
Circular bay on north-west of Mare Imbrium.

JANSSEN crater
Diameter: 153 miles
Depth: 9500'
Rukl: 68
Extremely old walled plain.

JURA mountain range
Official name: Mones Jura
Area: 300 mile chain.
Height: 12500'
Rukl: 10
Forms boundary of Sinus Iridium.

KEPLER crater
Diameter: 20 miles
Depth: 7500'
Class: 1
Rukl: 30

KIRCHER crater
Diameter: 49 miles
Depth: 15500'
Class: 1
Rukl: 71

KLEIN crater
Diameter: 30 miles
Depth: 6500'
Class: 5
Rukl: 44
Old, with 1500' central peak.

KRAFFT crater
Diameter: 31 miles
Depth: 6500'
Rukl: 17
Old.

LANGRENUS crater
Diameter: 85 miles
Depth: 16000'
Class: 1
Rukl: 49
6500' multiple central peaks.

LANSBERG crater
Diameter: 24 miles
Depth: 11000'
Class: 1
Rukl: 42
3000' multiple central peaks.

LINNE crater
Diameter: 1 mile
Depth: 1500'
Rukl: 23
Young, with very bright halo of ejecta.

MACROBIUS crater
Diameter: 42 miles
Depth: 12000'
Class: 1
Rukl: 26
3500' multiple central peaks.

MAGINUS crater
Diameter: 115 miles
Depth: 16500'
Class: 3
Rukl: 73
Walled plain.

MANILIUS crater
Diameter: 25 miles
Depth: 9500'
Class: 1
Rukl: 23
Bright.

MAUROLYCUS crater
Diameter: 73 miles
Depth: 16500'
Class: 2
Rukl: 66
Walled plain with 5000' multiple central peaks.

MEDII Sinus
Dimensions: 200 x 100 miles
Bay at the centre of the lunar disc. Contains selenographic latitude 0 and longitude 0.

MENELAUS crater
Diameter: 19 miles
Depth: 8500'
Class: 1
Rukl: 23
Bright.

MERCATOR crater
Diameter: 29 miles
Depth: 4500'
Class: 5
Rukl: 53

MERSENIUS crater
Diameter: 58 miles
Depth: 7500'
Class: 3
Rukl: 51

MESSALA crater
Diameter: 72 miles
Depth: 9000'
Rukl: 16
Very old walled plain.

METIUS crater
Diameter: 55 miles
Depth: 8500'
Class: 2
Rukl: 68
1500' multiple central peaks.

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