Mendeleev Crater is a meteorite impact crater, a landmark on Luna.
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The crater is 313 kilometers in diameter and located in the moon's northern hemisphere at coordinates 5.7° N latitude and 140.9° E longitude.
The crater is situated halfway between Mare Moscoviense and Gagarin Crater. (Last Unicorn RPG module: Starfleet Academy "Luna Planetary Index")
- The crater was named for periodic table inventor Dmitri Mendeleev, honored in Starfleet with the USS Mendeleev. It was misspelled Mendeleey on the Luna map.
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Reference[]
- Last Unicorn RPG module: Starfleet Academy "Luna Planetary Index")
External link[]
- Mendeleev (crater) article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.