thumb|right|240px|Oblique [[Lunar Orbiter 5 image, facing west]]
thumb|right|240px|Oblique [[Apollo 14 Hasselblad camera image, with the large crater Compton in the background]]
Fabry is a large lunar impact crater of the form termed a walled plain. It is located on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the northeastern limb. Parts of this area are sometimes brought into view by the effects of libration, but the terrain is seen from the edge and so not much in the way of detail can be observed.
This formation is of significant dimensions in its own right, but it overlies the northeast rim of an even larger basin named Harkhebi. To the west is the crater Vashakidze, and east of Fabry is the small Petrie. Northwards lies Swann.
The outer rim of Fabry is heavily worn and eroded, with notches from subsequent impacts. A pair of small craters, including Fabry H, lies along the eastern rim. Smaller craters lie along many parts of this remaining rim, most notably a small crater across the southern rim, and a short, hook-shaped valley cutting across the northwest rim. Only a few sections of the rim remain relatively intact, while the remainder is merely a ring of mountainous terrain.
Sections of the interior floor are relatively smooth and level, but the surface is rough and irregular in the northeast quadrant. There is a central peak formed from a long massif that covers nearly a quarter of the crater diameter from west to east. The infrared spectrum of pure crystalline plagioclase has been identified on this peak and the northern floor. this crater was known as Crater 45.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Fabry.
{| class="wikitable"
!width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Fabry
!width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Latitude
!width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Longitude
!width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Diameter
|-
|align="center"|H
|align="center"|41.9° N
|align="center"|105.2° E
|align="center"|37 km
|-
|align="center"|X
|align="center"|49.0° N
|align="center"|96.7° E
|align="center"|28 km
|}
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