Tags: Crater.
Horrocks is a lunar impact crater located entirely within the eroded northeast rim of the much larger walled plain Hipparchus. To the south of Horrocks are the craters Halley and Hind and Rhaeticus to the north. Gyldén and Saunder lie to the west and east respectively. The crater Horrocks was named after the 17th-century English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks.The rim of Horrocks is somewhat irregular and polygonal particularly with an outward protrusion on the eastern rim.
