Cockcroft

Crater, craters · 92.2 km across · 31.09°, -162.91° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約92.2km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Sir John Douglas; British nuclear physicist; Nobel laureate (1897-1967).

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

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 · 1

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。

Cockcroft N60.7 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Van den Bergh クレーター96 km

Krylov クレーター150 km

Evershed クレーター154 km

Mineur クレーター197 km

Evdokimov クレーター273 km

Jackson クレーター274 km

Parsons クレーター279 km

Fitzgerald クレーター279 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