Maclear (crater)

Short description: Crater on the Moon

Maclear

mosaic of Lunar Orbiter 4 images

Diameter| 20 km
Depth| 0.6 km
Colongitude| 340° at sunrise
The crater(top right) area in a Selenochromatic format Image (Si) Apollo 15 image

Maclear is a lava-flooded crater on the northwest part of the Mare Tranquillitatis, a lunar mare in the eastern half of the Moon. Its diameter is 20 km.[1] The crater is located to the southwest of the slightly larger Ross. To the southwest of Maclear is Sosigenes, while farther to the south-southeast is Arago.

With most of its interior submerged in deposits of basaltic lava, all that remains of this crater is a narrow rim projecting above the surrounding mare. The rim is not quite circular, having a flat outward bulge along the western side. But the rim is relatively uniform in width and is not significantly eroded.

The crater rim lies at the southern terminus of a rille belonging to a system that runs along the western edges of Mare Tranquillitatis. The rille system to the north of the crater is designated Rimae Maclear, while the rilles to the south-southwest are named Rimae Sosigenes. The Rimae Maclear stretches for about 100 kilometers, reaching Al-Bakri to the north along the edge of the mare.

It is named after Sir Thomas Maclear,[1] Her Majesty's astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope (Cape Town, South Africa ), from 1833 to 1870.

## 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 Maclear.

Maclear  | Latitude  | Longitude  | Diameter

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A  | 11.3° N  | 18.0° E  | 5 km

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Maclear (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.

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## External links

* Maclear at The Moon Wiki

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