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Petit (crater)

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Petit
Oblique view of Petit from Apollo 11
Diameter5 km
DepthUnknown
Colongitude297° at sunrise
EponymAlexis T. Petit
Not to be confused with Pettit, another lunar crater.

Petit is a small, bowl-shaped lunar crater that is located on the northwestern edge of the Mare Spumans. The crater has a prominent ray system. 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.

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