Papaleksi

Crater, craters · 92 km across · 10.15°, 163.95° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約92km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Nikolaj Dmitrievich; Soviet physicist (1880-1947).

Source of the name: Soviet (Europe) · Approved by the IAU 1970 · Other features named after Soviet

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。

Papaleksi Q12.2 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Spencer Jones クレーター105 km

Mandel'shtam クレーター143 km

Van Gent クレーター193 km

Dufay クレーター218 km

Mills クレーター250 km

Anderson クレーター259 km

Sharonov クレーター280 km

Zernike クレーター281 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