Lamé (crater)

Short description: Lunar impact crater

Lamé

Oblique Lunar Orbiter 4 image

Diameter| 84 km
Depth| 3.3 km
Colongitude| 296° at sunrise
Oblique Apollo 15 Mapping Camera image

Lamé is a lunar impact crater located astride the northeast rim of the crater Langrenus, to the east of Mare Fecunditatis. The eastern crater rim appears overlaid by a series of overlapping craters that form an intermittent chain flowing nearly a hundred kilometers to the south. The crater rim protrudes only slightly above the surrounding terrain, but it has a significant rampart where the rim lies within Vendelinus. In the middle of the floor is a slight ridge, forming a central peak.

On some older maps this crater was called Smith. It was previously designated Vendelinus C before being renamed by the IAU.

## 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 Lamé.

Lamé  | Latitude  | Longitude  | Diameter

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E  | 13.9° S  | 66.8° E  | 11 km
F  | 13.9° S  | 66.4° E  | 18 km
G  | 15.4° S  | 65.5° E  | 26 km
H  | 15.8° S  | 68.2° E  | 12 km
J  | 14.3° S  | 65.7° E  | 18 km
K  | 13.3° S  | 64.2° E  | 8 km
L  | 14.4° S  | 68.6° E  | 6 km
M  | 15.8° S  | 66.5° E  | 13 km
N  | 12.8° S  | 67.1° E  | 9 km
T  | 12.5° S  | 66.5° E  | 11 km
W  | 13.1° S  | 65.9° E  | 6 km
Z  | 15.9° S  | 65.9° E  | 17 km

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