Macmillan (Crater)

MacMillan
	Apollo 15 mapping camera image
Diameter	8 km
Depth	0.4 km
Colongitude	8° at sunrise

Short description: Crater on the Moon

MacMillan is a bowl-shaped lunar impact crater on the eastern fringes of the Mare Imbrium. It was named after American mathematician and astronomer William Duncan MacMillan.^[1] It is located just to the southwest of a lone rise, near the southwestern edge of the Montes Archimedes. This is a cup-shaped depression in the surface with an interior albedo that matches the nearby lunar mare. The edges of the rim have a somewhat higher albedo. It shows some indications of a concentric crater.^[2]

This crater was previously identified as Archimedes F.

References

↑ "MacMillan (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
↑ Wood, C. A. (1978). "Lunar Concentric Craters". Lunar and Planetary Science IX: 1264–1266. Bibcode: 1978LPI.....9.1264W. http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1978LPI.....9.1264W.

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External links

Beer Lunar Topographic Orthophotomap, LTO41A4, May 1974

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[1] "MacMillan (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.

[Wood_1978_conc-2] Wood, C. A. (1978). "Lunar Concentric Craters". Lunar and Planetary Science IX: 1264–1266. Bibcode: 1978LPI.....9.1264W. http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1978LPI.....9.1264W.

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