Mendeleev (crater)
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Mendeleev is a large lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, as seen from the Earth. The southern rim of this walled plain just crosses the lunar equator. Intruding into the eastern rim of Mendeleev is the crater Schuster. Nearly on the opposite side, the smaller Hartmann intrudes into west-southwestern rim.
Coordinates | 5.7°N 140.9°E / 5.7; 140.9 |
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Diameter | 313 km |
Colongitude | 224° at sunrise |
Eponym | Dmitri Mendeleev |
The crater is named after the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. Even after formal naming in 1961 by the IAU,[1] the crater was known as Basin IX until the early 1970s.[2]
Mendeleev is a basin of Nectarian age.[3] The interior plains of Mendeleev are covered with deposits of the Cayley Formation of Imbrian age.[4]