TOP TIP!
Up near the top of the lunar disc, nestled in the curve of the rugged Montes Apenninus, is a small crater called Timocharis. It doesn’t look like anything special; the Moon is spattered with countless tens of thousands of craters just like it, each one proof that our satellite has been absolutely pummelled and pulverised in its distant past by asteroids and comets that were left circling the Sun after it was born 4.6 billion years ago. Some of these impact craters are enormous, and lunar observers gaze at them again and again, ignoring the smaller holes surrounding them. But some of these small craters have fascinating stories behind them too, and deserve more than just a fleeting glance, such as Timocharis.