KUON GEO

Buffon

Crater, craters · 105.8 km across · -40.64°, -133.53° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約105.8km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Georges Louis Leclerc; French natural historian (1707-1788).
Source of the name: France (Europe) · Approved by the IAU 1970 · Other features named after France

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。
Buffon D18.6 km
Buffon H25.2 km
Buffon K20.1 km
Buffon V41.1 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

What stands next to a place tells you what kind of place it is.
Langmuir クレーター182 km
Leavitt クレーター191 km
Chebyshev クレーター202 km
Anders クレーター224 km
Lovell クレーター242 km
Brouwer クレーター255 km
Riedel クレーター287 km
McCool クレーター292 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