Meshcherskiy is an impact 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 on the Moon

Moon

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's far side, to the east-northeast of the larger Ostwald

Ostwald (crater)

Ostwald is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies just to the east of the crater Guyot, and near the northern border of Ibn Firnas. Recht lies along its eastern rim....

. To the east-southeast of Meshchersky is the
crater Vetchinkin

Vetchinkin (crater)

Vetchinkin is an eroded lunar impact crater. It is located to the west-northwest of the huge walled plain Mendeleev, on the far side of the Moon. To the west-northwest of Vetchinkin lies the crater Meshcherskiy, and to the south-southeast lies Green....

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This is a moderately worn crater formation, with some erosion along the south and northeast. The interior floor has an area of low-albedo

Albedo

Albedo , or reflection coefficient, is the diffuse reflectivity or reflecting power of a surface. It is defined as the ratio of reflected radiation from the surface to incident radiation upon it...

surface in its southern part. The remainder of the floor is more irregular in the eastern half.

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 Meshcherskiy.

Meshcherskiy	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
K	9.6° N	126.8° E	17 km
X	16.0° N	124.2° E	39 km