Cori (lunar crater)
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| Coordinates | 50°29′S 151°55′E / 50.48°S 151.91°E |
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| Diameter | 67.22 km (41.77 mi) |
| Depth | Unknown |
| Colongitude | 154° at sunrise |
| Eponym | Gerty T. Cori |
Cori is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies less than one crater diameter to the north of the crater Baldet. To the northeast is the crater Grissom.
The crater was named in 1979 by the IAU after Gerty Cori, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the first woman to win the prize in the category Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.