Geological Chronicle
Vening Meinesz is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon with a diameter of 88.69 kilometers. Its northern inner wall lies along the lunar equator, situated south of the larger crater Mandel'shtam and north of Keeler, with Dewar located less than one crater diameter to the southeast.
The structure is an eroded feature worn down by multiple small craterlets along the rim, leaving the rim edge no longer well-defined. The largest overlying impact is a small crater along the bottom edge of the northern inner wall. The remainder of the interior floor is relatively level, and satellite craters Vening Meinesz W and Vening Meinesz C are attached to the northwest and northeast outer rim.
Before receiving its formal name, the formation was known as Crater 303. In 1970, the International Astronomical Union named the crater after Dutch geophysicist and geodesist Felix Andries Vening Meinesz.