Lorentz

Crater, craters · 378.4 km across · 34.59°, -97.19° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約378.4km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Hendrik Antoon; Dutch physicist; Nobel laureate (1853-1928).

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 · 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。

Lorentz P35.3 km

Lorentz R36.9 km

Lorentz T20 km

Lorentz U22.7 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Nernst クレーター70 km

Avicenna クレーター153 km

Röntgen クレーター154 km

Laue クレーター191 km

Winlock クレーター218 km

Aston クレーター246 km

Bragg クレーター277 km

Schönfeld クレーター309 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