Mee (crater)

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The crater area (top left) in a selenochromatic image(Si) with some selenochromatic landmarks (yellow). More infos here : https://www.gawh.it/main/selenocromatica Hainzel-Kircher Ferruggia-Vinco.jpg
The crater area (top left) in a selenochromatic image(Si) with some selenochromatic landmarks (yellow). More infos here : https://www.gawh.it/main/selenocromatica
Mee
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Coordinates 43°42′S35°00′W / 43.7°S 35.0°W / -43.7; -35.0
Diameter 132 km
Depth 2.7 km
Colongitude 36° at sunrise
Eponym Arthur B. P. Mee

Mee is a lunar impact crater in the southwestern part of the Moon's near side. Overlying the northwestern rim and intruding one-third the distance across the interior floor is Hainzel, a merged triple-crater formation. To the south is the highly elongated crater Schiller. Mee is 132 kilometers in diameter and 2.7 kilometers deep. It is from the Pre-Nectarian period, 4.55 to 3.92 billion years ago. [1] [2]

This is an old crater formation with an outer rim that has been heavily eroded by subsequent impacts, leaving an irregular impression of the crater rim. The inner wall is notched an indented by multiple small craters, with the most recent being Mee F along the northwestern side. Portions of the interior are relatively level, and there is a palimpsest, Mee E, in the northwestern part of the floor. A tiny crater with a high albedo halo is located in the eastern part of the floor. [3]

The crater is named after the 19th-century Scottish astronomer Arthur Butler Phillips Mee. [1]

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 Mee. [4]

MeeLatitudeLongitudeDiameter
A44.4° S29.1° W14 km
B44.6° S31.1° W15 km
C45.3° S28.7° W13 km
D45.3° S32.9° W9 km
E43.0° S35.3° W16 km
F43.3° S36.7° W12 km
G45.5° S40.7° W23 km
H44.1° S39.4° W48 km
J44.5° S40.6° W10 km
K44.4° S41.6° W9 km
L44.0° S41.5° W8 km
M45.8° S29.1° W8 km
N45.2° S42.2° W6 km
P45.9° S30.0° W14 km
Q43.6° S33.9° W1 km
R44.0° S43.4° W10 km
S43.2° S41.0° W12 km
T42.5° S38.2° W9 km
U42.8° S33.9° W8 km
V45.5° S42.4° W7 km
W43.6° S35.5° W5 km
X41.5° S36.0° W7 km
Y44.3° S36.8° W7 km
Z44.7° S42.6° W12 km

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