Vernadskiy

Crater, craters · 92 km across · 23.11°, 130.43° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約92km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Vladimir Ivanovich; Soviet mineralogist (1863-1945).

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

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 · 2

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。

Vernadskiy U34.7 km

Vernadskiy X58.6 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Florensky クレーター81 km

Siedentopf クレーター134 km

Gavrilov クレーター174 km

Kepínski クレーター196 km

Meggers クレーター211 km

Shatalov クレーター281 km

Hoffmeister クレーター306 km

Nijland クレーター322 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