Mee (crater)

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]

Mee
Coordinates43.7°S 35.0°W / -43.7; -35.0
Diameter132 km
Depth2.7 km
Colongitude36° at sunrise
EponymArthur B. P. Mee

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]

Mee Latitude Longitude Diameter
A 44.4° S 29.1° W 14 km
B 44.6° S 31.1° W 15 km
C 45.3° S 28.7° W 13 km
D 45.3° S 32.9° W 9 km
E 43.0° S 35.3° W 16 km
F 43.3° S 36.7° W 12 km
G 45.5° S 40.7° W 23 km
H 44.1° S 39.4° W 48 km
J 44.5° S 40.6° W 10 km
K 44.4° S 41.6° W 9 km
L 44.0° S 41.5° W 8 km
M 45.8° S 29.1° W 8 km
N 45.2° S 42.2° W 6 km
P 45.9° S 30.0° W 14 km
Q 43.6° S 33.9° W 1 km
R 44.0° S 43.4° W 10 km
S 43.2° S 41.0° W 12 km
T 42.5° S 38.2° W 9 km
U 42.8° S 33.9° W 8 km
V 45.5° S 42.4° W 7 km
W 43.6° S 35.5° W 5 km
X 41.5° S 36.0° W 7 km
Y 44.3° S 36.8° W 7 km
Z 44.7° S 42.6° W 12 km
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References
  1. Autostar Suite Astronomer Edition. CD-ROM. Meade, April 2006.
  2. "IDENTIKIT". luna.e-cremona.it. Retrieved October 26, 2007.
  3. Rükl, Antonín (1990). Atlas of the Moon. Kalmbach Books. ISBN 0-913135-17-8.
  4. Bussey, B.; Spudis, P. (2004). The Clementine Atlas of the Moon. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81528-2.
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