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Delambre is a lunar impact crater that lies to the southwest of Mare Tranquillitatis in the central highland region. To the west is the crater pair of Theon Junior and Theon Senior the latter being more distant and located to the northwest. It is 52 kilometers in diameter and 3.5 kilometers in depth. It was named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre an 18th-century French astronomer.The rim of Delambre has a terraced interior with a tiny craterlet lying along the northern rim.

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