Geological Chronicle
Parkhurst is a heavily degraded lunar impact crater measuring 93.08 kilometers in diameter on the far side of the Moon. Situated northeast of Mare Australe and due south of the small mare Lacus Solitudinis, the formation lies between Scaliger to the north-northeast and the dark-floored Gernsback to the southwest.
Little remains of the formation other than the uneven outline of its outer rim. Several satellite craters lie along the rim edge, with Parkhurst D along the northeast, B to the north, and X along the northwest. The satellite crater Parkhurst Q pushes into the southwestern rim, distorting its shape, while small craterlets pockmark the interior floor.
Parkhurst crater was named after American astronomer John Adelbert Parkhurst.