Appleton

Crater, craters · 64.6 km across · 37.05°, 158.17° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約64.6km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Sir Edward Victor; British physicist; Nobel laureate (1892-1965).

Source of the name: England (Europe) · Approved by the IAU 1970 · Other features named after England

SEE IT · 地図で見る

Elevation here was measured by laser from orbit (LOLA). Nothing is estimated or generated.

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SATELLITE CRATERS · 衛星クレーター · 4

Smaller craters that share this name with a letter added. The IAU records them under the same origin, so they are listed here rather than given pages of their own.
この名前に英字を足した小さなクレーターです。由来は親と同じものとして登録されているため、ここに並べています。

Appleton D39.1 km

Appleton M25 km

Appleton Q22.7 km

Appleton R40.9 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

What stands next to a place tells you what kind of place it is.

Golovin クレーター110 km

Stearns クレーター130 km

Von Neumann クレーター152 km

Steno クレーター162 km

Ley クレーター172 km

Nikolaev クレーター179 km

Langevin クレーター240 km

Hutton クレーター254 km

Great-circle distances on a sphere of radius 1,737.4 km.

Names and their origins come from the IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (USGS Astrogeology), retrieved 2026-08-14.
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DATA: IAU / USGS Astrogeology · NASA LRO LOLA