Scheele is a tiny, bowl-shaped

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that lies on the

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, to the south of the small crater Wichmann. To the southwest is the flooded crater Letronne. To the southwest of Scheele are several low ridges projecting above the surface of the

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, the

Dorsa Ewing Dorsa Ewing is a wrinkle ridge at in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon. It is 262 km long and was named after American geophysicist William Maurice Ewing. References {{moon-stub Ewing Ewing may refer to: People * Ewing (surname) * Ewing (give ...

. This crater was named after the Swedish chemist

Carl Wilhelm Scheele Carl Wilhelm Scheele (, ; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a Swedish Pomerania, German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist. Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified the elements molybd ...

. It was previously designated Letronne D.

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