Geological Chronicle
Located in the northern latitudes of the far side of the Moon, von Békésy is a worn impact crater measuring 96.25 kilometers across. Situated behind the Moon's northeastern limb as seen from Earth, the feature sits in a relatively isolated area, with the closest named crater, Volterra, located just over one crater diameter to the north-northeast and Millikan to the southwest.
Subsequent impacts have heavily eroded the crater, leaving several portions of its rim overlaid by smaller craters. The largest of these lies across the southeastern rim, alongside multiple smaller craters along the northeastern and western rims. The interior floor is relatively featureless, marked only by a few tiny craterlets.
The crater commemorates Nobel laureate Georg von Békésy, a Hungarian otological physicist.