Quetelet

Crater, craters · 54.8 km across · 42.66°, -135.3° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約54.8km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Lambert Aldophe Jacques; Belgian statistician, astronomer (1796-1874).

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

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。

Quetelet T47 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Thiel クレーター77 km

Gullstrand クレーター141 km

Von Zeipel クレーター149 km

Schlesinger クレーター157 km

Perrine クレーター165 km

Esnault-Pelterie クレーター201 km

Charlier クレーター213 km

Fowler クレーター222 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