Meton

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Meton

Lat: 73.6°N, Long: 18.8°E, Diam: 130 km, Depth: 1.83 km, Rükl: 5, pre-Nectarian?

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Wes Higgins

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Maps

(LAC zone 4A4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description


Description: Elger

METON.--A peculiarly-shaped walled-plain of great size, exhibiting considerable parallelism. The floor is seen to be very rugged under oblique illumination.

Additional Information

Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
  • Westfall, 2000: 1.83 km
  • Cherrington, 1969: 2.49 km


Nomenclature

Meton of Athens was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geometer, and engineer who lived in Athens in the 5th century BCE.

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