Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedBuffon
Crater (105.8 km) — Georges Louis Leclerc; French natural historian (1707-1788).
- Coordinates
- -40.6442, -133.5339 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 105.75665
- Etymology
- Georges Louis Leclerc; French natural historian (1707-1788).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1970
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/910
- Clean name
- Buffon
- Ethnicity
- France
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-122
Primary source