KUON GEO

Nagaoka

Crater, craters · 50.5 km across · 19.51°, 154.05° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約50.5km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Hantaro; Japanese physicist (1865-1940).
Source of the name: Japan (Asia) · Approved by the IAU 1970 · Other features named after Japan

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 · 2

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。
Nagaoka U29.7 km
Nagaoka W28.8 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

What stands next to a place tells you what kind of place it is.
Konstantinov クレーター123 km
Kohlschütter クレーター160 km
Komarov クレーター162 km
Leonov クレーター163 km
Van Gent クレーター218 km
Tikhomirov クレーター249 km
Tsu Chung-Chi クレーター266 km
Mare Moscoviense 海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