McNally (crater)
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McNally is a Teacher crater
Impact crater
In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...

 that is located to the north-northwest of the much larger crater Fersman
Fersman (crater)
Fersman is a large lunar impact crater on the Moon's far side. It lies to the east of the crater Poynting, and west-northwest of Weyl. To the south is the huge walled plain Hertzsprung....

, on the far side of Moon
Moon
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. This is a worn crater with a rounded rim edge that is marked by many tiny impacts. Smaller, cup-shaped impacts cut through the rim along the southeastern and northern edges. There is a small craterlet along the base of the southeastern inner wall. The interior floor is otherwise relatively featureless.

Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to McNally.
McNally Latitude Longitude Diameter
T 22.3° N 129.0° W 19 km
Y 24.2° N 127.5° W 22 km
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