KUON GEO

Leucippus

Crater, craters · 57 km across · 29.24°, -116.41° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約57km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Greek philosopher (unkn-fl. c. 440 B.C.).
Source of the name: Greek (Europe) · Approved by the IAU 1970 · Other features named after Greek

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。
Leucippus F25 km
Leucippus K17.3 km
Leucippus Q89.5 km
Leucippus X35.3 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

What stands next to a place tells you what kind of place it is.
Hatanaka クレーター146 km
Healy クレーター172 km
Comrie クレーター198 km
Parenago クレーター226 km
Petropavlovskiy クレーター235 km
Douglass クレーター249 km
Frost クレーター256 km
Comstock 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