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A new catalogue of lunar crater diameters, depths and morphologies based on Orbiter photography is described. Preliminary shadow length reductions indicate that previous depths determined by ACIC and Baldwin are systematically about 500 m too shallow.
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Wood, C.A. The system of lunar craters, revised. The Moon 3, 408–411 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00562462
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