Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedBessel
Crater (15.6 km) — Friedrich Wilhelm; German astronomer (1784-1846).
- Coordinates
- 21.7342, 17.9204 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 15.563185
- Etymology
- Friedrich Wilhelm; German astronomer (1784-1846).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1935
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/720
- Clean name
- Bessel
- Ethnicity
- Germany
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-42
Primary source