Eddington

Crater, craters · 120.1 km across · 21.5°, -72.02° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約120.1km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Sir Arthur Stanley; British astrophysicist, mathematician (1882-1944).

Source of the name: Great Britain (Europe) · Approved by the IAU 1964 · 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。

Eddington P11.4 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Struve クレーター142 km

Krafft クレーター151 km

Seleucus クレーター152 km

Briggs クレーター169 km

Russell クレーター181 km

Catena Krafft クレーター列200 km

Cardanus クレーター250 km

Rima Cardanus 谷（リマ）310 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