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Goclenius is a lunar crater that is located near the west edge of Mare Fecunditatis. It lies to the southeast of the lava-flooded crater Gutenberg, and north of Magelhaens. To the northwest is a parallel rille system that follow a course toward the northwest, running for a length of up to 240 kilometers. This feature is named the Rimae Goclenius.
The rim of this crater is worn, distorted and irregular, having a somewhat egg-like outline. The crater floor has been covered in lava, and a rille cuts across the floor towards the northwest, in the same direction as the other members of the Rimae Goclenius. A similar rille lies across the floor of Gutenberg, and it is likely that these features were all formed at the same time, after the original craters were created.
There is a low central rise located to the northwest of the crater's midpoint.
Goclenius may refer to:
- Conrad Goclenius (1490-1539), German humanist
- Rudolf Goclenius the Elder (1547–1628), German scholastic philosopher
- Rudolf Goclenius, Jr. (1572–1621), German physician and professor of physics, medicine and mathematics; son of the elder Goclenius
- Goclenius, a lunar crater named after the younger Goclenius