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The dome has a noticeable vent structure and appears to be perpendicular to wrinkle ridges in the southern Mare Nectaris basin. The spectral signature of this dome, derived from Clementine UVVIS and Chandrayaan-1 M3 reflectance data, revealed that Fracastorius has low TiO2 content and primarily basaltic material. Using altimeter data, we measured the dome diameter to be 28.6 km, with a dome height of 241.5 m, and a flank slope of 1\u00b0. Based on rheological modeling of the dome and a viscoelastic model of the presumed feeder dike, we obtained a magma viscosity of 3.1 \u00d7 105 Pa s, an effusion rate of 5.9 m3 s\u22121, a duration of multiple effusion processes of 4.15 years, and a magma rise speed of 2.1 \u00d7 10\u22124 m s\u22121. From these measurements, we estimate the feeder dike geometry to have a horizontal dike length of 234 km and a width of 11.8 m. 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