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McLaughlin (lunar crater)

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This is a heavily eroded crater with an irregular rim that is mark by a number of smaller impacts. The interior floor is generally level, except for a low right offset to the southeast of the midpoint, and some irregularities near the southwest and northern inner walls. The interior is marked by
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By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to McLaughlin.
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that is located just behind the northwestern rim on the
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Lunar Orbiter 4
Coordinates
47°06′N 92°54′W / 47.1°N 92.9°W / 47.1; -92.9
Diameter
Depth
Colongitude
Eponym
Dean B. McLaughlin

lunar
impact crater
far side
Moon
Earth
libration
Galvani
Rynin
2024 McLaughlin
McLaughlin (Martian crater)
Whitaker, E. A.
NASA
"Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature"
USGS
Bussey, B.
Spudis, P.
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
978-0-521-81528-4
Who's Who on the Moon: A Biographical Dictionary of Lunar Nomenclature

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