Lee (moon crater)

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Lee (bottom left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)

position

30.64 ° S , 40.79 ° W Coordinates: 30 ° 38 ′ 24 " S , 40 ° 47 ′ 24" W

diameter

41 km

depth

1340 m

Card sheet

93 (PDF)

Named after

John Lee (1783–1866)

Named since

1935

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

41.17

Lee is an impact crater in the southwest of the lunar front , on the southern edge of Mare Humorum , south of Doppelmayer crater and west of Vitello . The crater wall is very badly eroded and completely disappeared in the northeast, the interior is flooded by the lavas of the Mare .

List of Lee's minor craters
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	31.46 ° S , 41.28 ° WMoon -31.46 -41.28	17 km	[1]
H	30.85 ° S , 38.87 ° WMoon -30.85 -38.87	5 km	[2]
M.	29.88 ° S , 39.67 ° WMoon -29.88 -39.67	72 km	[3]
S.	30.86 ° S , 42.98 ° WMoon -30.86 -42.98	7 km	[4]
T	30.05 ° S , 42.09 ° WMoon -30.05 -42.09	5 km	[5]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after British astronomer John Lee .

Web links

Lee in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Lee on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .

[1] John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .