Jeans

Crater, craters · 81.1 km across · -55.58°, 91.51° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約81.1km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Sir James Hopwood; British mathematical physicist (1877-1946).

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 · 7

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。

Jeans B11.5 km

Jeans G26.3 km

Jeans N66.7 km

Jeans S54.6 km

Jeans U63.3 km

Jeans X44.7 km

Jeans Y16.1 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

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Petrov クレーター183 km

Moulton クレーター188 km

Lyot クレーター197 km

Kugler クレーター231 km

Mare Australe 海237 km

Anuchin クレーター277 km

Priestley クレーター288 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