Poinsot

Crater, craters · 65.1 km across · 78.9°, -146.21° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約65.1km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Louis; French mathematician (1777-1859).

Source of the name: France (Europe) · Approved by the IAU 1970 · 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 · 3

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。

Poinsot E30.3 km

Poinsot K16 km

Poinsot P28.3 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Heymans クレーター126 km

Rozhdestvenskiy クレーター190 km

Froelich クレーター192 km

Thiessen クレーター199 km

Lovelace クレーター203 km

Plaskett クレーター203 km

Merrill クレーター230 km

Mezentsev クレーター249 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