Zernike

Crater, craters · 50.7 km across · 18.34°, 168.4° · the Moon
クレーター・差し渡し約50.7km

WHY THAT NAME · なぜその名前か

Frits; Dutch physicist; Nobel laureate (1888-1966).

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。

Zernike T17 km

Zernike W30.8 km

Zernike Z26.3 km

NEAREST NAMED FEATURES · 近くの地名

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

Anderson クレーター111 km

Spencer Jones クレーター177 km

Buys-Ballot クレーター199 km

Lacus Luxuriae 湖206 km

Freundlich クレーター214 km

Sharonov クレーター227 km

Van Gent クレーター252 km

Virtanen クレーター255 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