Crater MacClure ( Latin McClure ) is a large impact crater in the area of the southwestern coast of the Sea of Plenty on the visible side of the Moon . The name was given in honor of the British polar explorer Robert McClure (1807–1873) and was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1935.
| McClure | |
|---|---|
| lat Mcclure | |
 Snapshot of the Lunar Orbiter Probe - IV . | |
| Specifications | |
| Diameter | 24 km |
| Deepest | 1180 m |
| Title | |
| Eponym | Robert McClure (1807–1873) - British polar explorer, discoverer of the Northwest Passage. |
| Location | |
| Heavenly body | Moon |
Crater Description
The nearest neighbors of the crater are Columbus Crater in the west; Bello Crater in the northwest; the crazier crater in the north; Wendelin crater in the east; the crater Biot in the south and the crater Cook in the southwest. To the west of the crater of McClure are the mountains of the Pyrenees and further behind them the Sea of Nectar [1] . The selenographic coordinates of the center of the crater are , diameter 24.0 km [2] , depth 1180 m [3] .
Crater MacClure has a close to circular shape with a slight deviation from it in the northeast part, where the crater shaft is straightened. Shaft with a clearly defined edge and a narrow smooth inner slope. The height of the shaft above the surrounding terrain reaches 820 m [4] , the volume of the crater is approximately 330 km ³ [4] . The bottom of the bowl is crossed; in the northern and western parts of the bowl there are several small ridges. Some sources indicate the presence of a central hill with a height of 700 m [5] .
Satellite craters
| McClure | Coordinates | Diameter, km |
|---|---|---|
| A | 6.1 | |
| B | 8.1 | |
| C | 25.9 | |
| D | 24.2 | |
| M | 20.5 | |
| N | 9.1 | |
| P | 12.3 | |
| S | 3.5 |
See also
- List of craters on the moon
- Moon crater
- Morphological catalog of craters of the moon
- Planetary Nomenclature
- Selenography
- Mineralogy of the Moon
- Geology of the Moon
- Late heavy bombardment
Notes
- Мак McClure Crater on LAC-80 map
- ↑ Directory of the International Astronomical Union
- ↑ John E. Westfalls Atlas of the Lunar Terminator, Cambridge Univ. Press (2000)
- ↑ 1 2 Lunar Impact Crater Database . Losiak A., Kohout T., O'Sulllivan K., Thaisen K., Weider S. (Lunar and Planetary Institute, Lunar Exploration Intern Program, 2009); updated by Öhman T. in 2011. Archived page .
- ↑ Naosuke Sekiguchi, 1972. Catalogs of Lunar Craters on the Visible Hemisphere. University of Tokyo Press and University Park Press.
Links
- Digital photographic atlas of the moon.
- Pictures of the crater from the board of Apollo-12, Apollo-15, Apollo-16.
- Crater McClure on the map LAC-80.
- Selenological map of the vicinity of the crater.
- Crater description on The Moon-Wiki.
- Andersson, LE, and EA Whitaker, NASA Catalog of Lunar Nomenclature, NASA Reference Publication 1097, October 1982.