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Fabricus is a lunar impact crater that is located within the northeast part of the walled plain Janssen. Attached to the north-northwest rim is the slightly larger cater Metius. Fabricius has multiple central peaks that rise to 0.8 km with a rugged rise to the northwest running north–south. The rim is lumpy and somewhat distended most noticeably to the southwest and south. It is 78 kilometers in diameter and 2500 meters deep. It is from the Eratosthenian period 3.2 to 1.1 billion years ago.

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