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Orontius (Crater)Orontius is a lunar impact crater that lies in the heavily-cratered southern highlands of the Moon's near side. It is located to the northwest of the prominent Tycho crater, and south and east of the large Deslandres walled-plain. The eastern part of the crater is overlaid by the smaller Huggins crater, which is overlain in turn on its eastern rim by the still smaller Nasireddin crater, the trio forming a crater chain of diminishing dimensions. Joined to the southern rim is the Saussure crater. To the southwest, just east of Tycho, is the Pictet crater. The rim of Orontius is battered, worn, and overlain by a number of different craters. A pair of craters to the wes have intruded into the crater wall, forming inward bulges. Little of the original wall remains nearly intact, with the south and southwestern rim having survived the erosion process better than the other wall sections. The southwest half of the crater floor is still fairly flat and marred only by a few small craterlets. In the north of the crater, the distorted feature 'Orontius F' forms a distorted, crater-like oval. Satellite craters By convention these features are identified on Lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Orontius crater. | idth="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Latitude | width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Longitude | width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Diameter | | lign="center"|A | align="center"|39.1° S | align="center"|2.6° W | align="center"|7 km | | lign="center"|B | align="center"|40.0° S | align="center"|3.1° W | align="center"|10 km | | lign="center"|C | align="center"|37.9° S | align="center"|4.1° W | align="center"|15 km | | lign="center"|D | align="center"|39.4° S | align="center"|6.2° W | align="center"|15 km | | lign="center"|E | align="center"|39.5° S | align="center"|4.8° W | align="center"|6 km | | lign="center"|F | align="center"|39.1° S | align="center"|3.9° W | align="center"|41 km |
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