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Crater on the Moon
Feature on the moon
Wapowski is a
lunar
impact crater located on the
lunar near side near the southern pole. The crater is located Southwest of craters
von Baeyer and
Svedberg just inside the rim of the prominent
Scott crater . Wapowski was adopted and named after Polish
cartographer
Bernard Wapowski by the
IAU in 2009.
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