Buys-Ballot

Crater, craters · 66.4 km across · 20.86°, 174.82° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約66.4km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Christoph Hendrik Diederik; Dutch meteorologist (1817-1890).

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

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。

Buys-Ballot H24 km

Buys-Ballot Q59.6 km

Buys-Ballot Y24.8 km

Buys-Ballot Z59.2 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Lacus Luxuriae 湖48 km

Freundlich クレーター167 km

Virtanen クレーター168 km

Zernike クレーター199 km

Dante クレーター199 km

Anderson クレーター200 km

Sharonov クレーター262 km

Morse クレーター281 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