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[[Image:Chain of impact craters on Ganymede.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The image shows a chain of craters on Ganymede. Credit: Galileo Project, Brown University, JPL, NASA.]]
A '''crater''' may be any large, roughly circular, depression or hole in or beneath the rocky surface of a rocky object.

'''Crater astronomy''' applies the techniques of astronomy to the apparent craters observed on rocky objects in an effort to understand what they are, when they occurred, and their importance to rocky objects.
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==Astronomy==
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When any effort to acquire a system of laws or knowledge focusing on an ''astr'', ''aster'', or ''astro'', that is, any natural body in the sky especially at night,<ref name=Gove>{{ cite book
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|accessdate=2011-08-26 }}</ref> succeeds in discovering or exploring craters even in its smallest [[Special:Search |measurement]], '''crater astronomy''' is the name of the effort and the result. Once an entity, source, or object has been detected as having craters, it may be necessary to determine what the mechanism is. Usually this information provides understanding of the same entity, source, or object. Craters suggests a violent event. The formation of craters on Earth may be associated wit(contracted; show full)[[Category:Earth sciences/Lectures]]
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