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== Impact basins == {| |+ '''Lunar impact basins'''<br/>as categorized by Wilhelms ''et al''. (1987)<ref> {{cite book |last1=Wilhelms |first1=Don |last2=McCauley |first2=John |last3=Trask |first3=Newell |year=1987 |title=The geologic history of the Moon |series=Professional Paper |page=148 |publisher=[[US Geological Survey]] |doi=10.3133/pp1348 |doi-access=free |url=http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1348 }} </ref> |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" |rowspan="3"| {| class="wikitable sortable" style="vertical-align:center;text-align:left;" |- style="text-align:center;background:#EAECF0;border:1px solid black;" |rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:center;"| '''Basin name''' |style="vertical-align:bottom;"| '''Diameter''' |style="vertical-align:bottom;"| '''Age-<br/>group''' |- style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center;background:#EAECF0;" | (km) | (nr.) |- | [[Oceanus Procellarum|''Procellarum'']] |align="right"| 3,200 |rowspan="2" align="center"| 1 |- | [[South Pole–Aitken basin|South Pole-Aitken]] |align="right"| 2,500 <!-- | 1 --> |- | ''[[Tsiolkovskiy (crater)|Tsiolkovskiy]]-[[Stark (crater)|Stark]]'' |align="right"| 700 |rowspan="9" align="center"| 2 |- | ''[[Grissom (crater)|Grissom]]-[[White (crater)|White]]'' |align="right"| 600 <!-- | 2 --> |- | [[Mare Insularum|''Insularum'']] |align="right"| 600 <!-- | 2 --> |- | [[Mare Marginis|''Marginis'']] |align="right"| 580 <!-- | 2 --> |- | ''[[Flamsteed (crater)|Flamsteed]]-[[Billy (crater)|Billy]]'' |align="right"| 570 <!-- | 2 --> |- | ''[[Balmer (crater)|Balmer]]-[[Kapteyn (crater)|Kapteyn]]'' |align="right"| 550 <!-- | 2 --> |- | ''[[Werner (crater)|Werner]]-[[Airy (lunar crater)|Airy]]'' |align="right"| 500 <!-- | 2 --> |- | ''[[Pingré (crater)|Pingré]]-[[Hausen (crater)|Hausen]]'' |align="right"| 300 <!-- | 2 --> |- | ''[[Al-Khwarizmi (crater)|Al-Khwarizmi]] / [[King (crater)|King]]'' |align="right"| 590 <!-- | 2 --> |- | [[Mare Fecunditatis|Fecunditatis]] |align="right"| 990 |rowspan="6" align="center"| 3 |- | [[Mare Australe|Australe]] |align="right"| 880 <!-- | 3 --> |- | [[Mare Tranquillitatis|Tranquillitatis]] |align="right"| 800 <!-- | 3 --> |- | ''[[Mutus (crater)|Mutus]]-[[Vlacq (crater)|Vlacq]]'' |align="right"| 700 <!-- | 3 --> |- | [[Mare Nubium|Nubium]] |align="right"| 690 <!-- | 3 --> |- | [[Lomonosov (lunar crater)|Lomonosov]]-[[Fleming (crater)|Fleming]] |align="right"| 620 <!-- | 3 --> |- style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" |} | {| class="wikitable sortable" style="vertical-align:center;text-align:left;" |- style="text-align:center;background:#EAECF0;border:1px solid black;" |rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:center;"| '''Basin name''' |style="vertical-align:bottom;"| '''Diameter''' |style="vertical-align:bottom;"| '''Age-<br/>group''' |- style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center;background:#EAECF0;" | (km) | (nr.) |- | [[Mare Ingenii|Ingenii]] |align="right"| 650 |rowspan="3" align="center"| 4 |- | [[Poincaré (crater)|Poincaré]] |align="right"| 340 <!-- | 4 --> |- | [[Keeler (lunar crater)|Keeler]]-[[Heaviside (lunar crater)|Heaviside]] |align="right"| 780 <!-- | 4 --> |- | [[Coulomb-Sarton Basin|Coulomb-Sarton]] |align="right"| 530 |rowspan="2" align="center"| 5 |- | [[Mare Smythii|Smythii]] |align="right"| 840 <!-- | 5 --> |- | [[Lorentz (crater)|Lorentz]] |align="right"| 360 |align="center"| 6 |- | ''[[Amundsen (crater)|Amundsen]]-[[Ganswindt (crater)|Ganswindt]]'' |align="right"| 355 |rowspan="4" align="center"| 7 |- | [[Schiller-Zucchius Basin|Schiller-Zucchius]] |align="right"| 325 <!-- | 7 --> |- | [[Planck (crater)|Planck]] |align="right"| 325 <!-- | 7 --> |- | [[Birkhoff (crater)|Birkhoff]] |align="right"| 330 <!-- | 7 --> |- | [[Freundlich-Sharonov Basin|Freundlich-Sharonov]] |align="right"| 600 |align="center"| 8 |- | [[Grimaldi (crater)|Grimaldi]] |align="right"| 430 |rowspan="2" align="center"| 9 |- | [[Apollo (crater)|Apollo]] |align="right"| 505 <!-- | 9 --> |} |- |style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;padding-left: 2em;"| {{small|For basins with no article, the two prominent <br/>craters' names are separately linked to their <br/>respective articles.}} |- |style="text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom;padding-left: 2em;"| {{small|Names of proposed basins are ''italicized''.<br/> }} |}
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