Tags: Crater.
Petit is a small bowl-shaped lunar crater that is located on the northwestern edge of the Mare Spumans. The name is appropriate since Petit means small in French. But it was actually named in honor of Alexis Thérèse Petit a French physicist.The crater lies to the south of the crater Townley and east of Condon. Farther to the northwest is Apollonius. Petit was previously designated Apollonius W before being given a name by the IAU.