Lamèch is a small

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impact crater that is located to the southwest of the prominent crater Eudoxus, at the eastern edge of the

Montes Caucasus Montes Caucasus is a rugged range of mountains in the northeastern part of the Moon. It begins at a gap of level surface that joins the Mare Imbrium to the west with the Mare Serenitatis to the east, and extends in an irregular band to the no ...

range. It was named after French selenographer

Félix Chemla Lamèch Félix Chemla Lamèch (1894 – 1962) was a Greek-French, astronomer, meteorologist, selenographer, and celestial cartographer. In 1924, he founded the Corfu Observatory. He also founded the first Astronomical Society of Greece on the island o ...

. This is a circular, bowl-shaped formation. The inner walls slope down to a small central floor that is about one-fourth the diameter of the crater. This formation is not notably eroded, and contains no other features of interest.

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