Mee (moon crater)

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Mee
Mee + Hainzel - LROC - WAC.JPG
Mee with side craters ( LROC -WAC)
Mee (moon equatorial region)
Mee
position 43.59 °  S , 35.31 °  W Coordinates: 43 ° 35 ′ 24 "  S , 35 ° 18 ′ 36"  W
diameter 136 km
depth 2680 m
Card sheet 111 (PDF)
Named after Arthur Butler Phillips Mee (1860-1926)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Mee is an impact crater in the southwest of the front of the moon south of the Mare Humorum . The north-eastern edge of the large but severely eroded crater is overlaid by the irregularly shaped Hainzel crater .

List of minor craters of Mee
Letter position diameter link
A. 44.49 °  S , 29.34 °  W 14 km [1]
B. 44.58 °  S , 31.24 °  W 15 km [2]
C. 45.27 °  S , 28.81 °  W 13 km [3]
D. 45.39 °  S , 33.11 °  W 9 km [4]
E. 43.15 °  S , 35.48 °  W 16 km [5]
F. 43.37 °  S , 36.89 °  W 11 km [6]
G 45.48 °  S , 40.73 °  W 22 km [7]
H 44.35 °  S , 39.8 °  W 48 km [8th]
J 44.49 °  S , 40.72 °  W 10 km [9]
K 44.45 °  S , 41.62 °  W 9 km [10]
L. 44 °  S , 41.59 °  W 8 kilometers [11]
M. 45.89 °  S , 29.35 °  W 7 km [12]
N 45.27 °  S , 42.3 °  W 6 km [13]
P 45.97 °  S , 30.14 °  W 13 km [14]
Q 43.61 °  S , 33.89 °  W 1 km [15]
R. 44.09 °  S , 43.45 °  W 10 km [16]
S. 43.29 °  S , 41.07 °  W 13 km [17]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Scottish amateur astronomer Arthur Butler Phillips Mee .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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