Geological Chronicle
Brenner is an old lunar impact crater in the rugged southeastern part of the Moon's near side, located within one crater diameter northwest of the crater pair Metius and Fabricius. The feature spans a diameter of 90 kilometers.
Subsequent impacts have deeply eroded the ancient formation, leaving only the western section still resembling a crater. That western face retains the most intact portion of the rim, worn down into a low ridge in the surface. The northeast rim has been reshaped into rough, irregular terrain, while the southeastern rim is overlain by the relatively old crater Brenner A.
The crater is named for Serbian-Austrian astronomer Spiridon Gopčević, a publicist who wrote under the pseudonym Leo Brenner. German educator and astronomer Philipp Fauth introduced the name into lunar nomenclature, and the International Astronomical Union formally adopted the designation in 1935.