Orontius

Crater, craters · 121 km across · -40.37°, -3.96° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約121km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Oronce Fine (Orontius Finaeus Delphinatus); French mathematician, cartographer (1494-1555).

Source of the name: France (Europe) · Approved by the IAU 1935 · Other features named after France

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 · 6

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。

Orontius A6.7 km

Orontius B8.8 km

Orontius C14.5 km

Orontius D14.2 km

Orontius E7.1 km

Orontius F41.4 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Huggins クレーター60 km

Saussure クレーター91 km

Nasireddin クレーター96 km

Miller クレーター114 km

Pictet クレーター125 km

Sasserides クレーター132 km

Lexell クレーター139 km

Ball クレーター171 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