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Ridge Section 146 is Gerasimovich, named after an 86 km lunar
crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies beyond the western
limb, to the west-northwest of the immense Mare Orientale
impact basin. The outer blanket of ejecta from this impact
reaches nearly to the rim of Gerasimovich. Nearby craters of
note include Houzeau to the north (difficult to see in or LRO
chart) and the smaller Ellerman to the southeast. The outer
rim of Gerasimovich is worn and eroded, with a perimeter that
has been modified and reshaped by nearby impacts. The much
younger crater Gerasimovich D lies across the northeastern
rim, and lies near the center of a poorly organized blanket of
higher albedo deposits. Just to the west-southwest of the
outer rim is the young, sharp-rimmed crater Gerasimoch R. The
interior floor of Gerasimovich is irregular near the edges,
and is marked by several small craterlets. (Credit: Some of
the information used in the section feature descriptions was
obtained from wikipedia.org. Section 146 and this directory
was created by Fran Ridge and Ned Haskin of The Lunascan
Project).