KUON GEO

Rutherford

Crater, craters · 16 km across · 10.56°, 137.09° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約16km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Sir Ernest; New Zealand-British physicist; Nobel laureate (1871-1937).
Source of the name: Great Britain (Europe) · Approved by the IAU 1976 · Other features named after Great Britain

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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NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

What stands next to a place tells you what kind of place it is.
Bergman クレーター110 km
Richards クレーター125 km
Catena Mendeleev クレーター列135 km
Hoffmeister クレーター136 km
Glauber クレーター168 km
Moissan クレーター176 km
Fischer クレーター178 km
Vetchinkin クレーター181 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