Tags: Crater.
Hatanaka is a lunar crater that lies on the Moon’s far side just out of sight past the western limb. It lies to the west of the larger crater Leucippus and to the northwest of the still larger satellite crater Leucippus Q. It recalls the memory of Takeo Hatanaka (1914 – 1963) a Japanese astronomer.This is a somewhat eroded crater formation with a pair of small impacts breaking into the northern rim.