Aston

Crater, craters · 44.5 km across · 32.77°, -87.68° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約44.5km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Francis William; British chemist, physicist; Nobel laureate (1877-1945).

Source of the name: England (Europe) · Approved by the IAU 1964 · 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 · 2

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。

Aston K14.5 km

Aston L10.1 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Röntgen クレーター95 km

Ulugh Beigh クレーター146 km

Voskresenskiy クレーター148 km

Nernst クレーター194 km

Lavoisier クレーター228 km

Lorentz クレーター246 km

Bartels クレーター257 km

Bunsen クレーター267 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