van't Hoff

Crater, craters · 107.3 km across · 61.75°, -132.68° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約107.3km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Jacobus Hendricus; Dutch chemist; Nobel laureate (1852-1911).

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 · 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。

van't Hoff F45.2 km

van't Hoff M40 km

van't Hoff N47 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Stebbins クレーター158 km

Dyson クレーター162 km

Birkhoff クレーター220 km

Kramers クレーター268 km

Nöther (Noether) クレーター281 km

Mezentsev クレーター306 km

Hippocrates クレーター308 km

Niepce クレーター348 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