The crater is located west of the landing site of the Chinese Chang'e 4 lander.

[1] The best fit model of the crater impactor suggest a projectile with a diameter of 224 m and a velocity of 17 km/s.

[3] It is named after the Chinese mythical figure Zhinü, the “weaver girl” (织女; 織女; Zhīnǚ) from the traditional myth The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, as well as an ancient Chinese constellation.

[3] This is a young crater with a diameter of about 3.8 km and a depth of around 800 m. This impact penetrated the 320 m deep basalt mare deposits in the Von Kármán crater, thus providing information about the subsurface deposits.

The ejecta from the Zhinyu crater varies radially by distance, suggesting a heterogeneous composition.