What is "mackin"

Mackin is a surname of multiple origins in the British Isles.

In Scotland, it originates from the west coast and the Hebrides as MacKin, from the Gaelic Mac Sim or Mac Shimidh meaning "son of Simon".

In Wales, Mackin is thought to be derived from the village of Machen in Monmouthshire.

In Ireland, Mackin was the County Monaghan spelling of MacMaicin, a sept from the Kingdom of Oriel.

Mackin is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed north of it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission, but did not visit it.

Mackin is adjacent to the similarly-sized crater Hess. To the north is Camelot, to the northwest are Shorty and Lara, and to the west is Nansen. To the northeast is Emory.

The crater was named by the astronauts after geologist Joseph Hoover Mackin.