Leeuwenhoek

Crater, craters · 125 km across · -29.28°, -178.87° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約125km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Antony van; Dutch microscopist (1632-1723).

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 · 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。

Leeuwenhoek E102.1 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Orlov クレーター147 km

Nassau クレーター167 km

Birkeland クレーター189 km

Rumford クレーター241 km

Van de Graaff クレーター253 km

Leibnitz クレーター275 km

Davisson クレーター280 km

De Vries クレーター297 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