Vetchinkin

Crater, craters · 94.3 km across · 9.77°, 131.08° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約94.3km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Vladimir Petrovich; Soviet physicist, engineer (1888-1950).

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 · 4

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。

Vetchinkin F30.8 km

Vetchinkin K23.1 km

Vetchinkin P15 km

Vetchinkin Q23.5 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Meshcherskiy クレーター180 km

Rutherford クレーター181 km

Morozov クレーター193 km

Green クレーター194 km

Bergman クレーター210 km

Recht クレーター212 km

Gavrilov クレーター232 km

Hoffmeister クレーター234 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