Van der Waals

Crater, craters · 113.4 km across · -43.56°, 119.98° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約113.4km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Johannes Diderik; Dutch physicist; Nobel laureate (1837-1923).

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

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 · 5

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。

Van der Waals B15.9 km

Van der Waals C22.9 km

Van der Waals H32.8 km

Van der Waals K48 km

Van der Waals W44.3 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

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Pogson クレーター200 km

Bjerknes クレーター210 km

Coblentz クレーター226 km

Kozyrev クレーター226 km

Rosseland クレーター254 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