Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedAl-Biruni
Crater (80.4 km) — Abū ar-Rayhān Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Birūnī; Persian astronomer, mathematician, geographer (973-1048).
- Coordinates
- 18.0713, 92.6162 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 80.41024
- Etymology
- Abū ar-Rayhān Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Birūnī; Persian astronomer, mathematician, geographer (973-1048).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1970
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/146
- Clean name
- Al Biruni
- Ethnicity
- Persian
- Continent
- Asia
- Quad
- LAC-46
Primary source