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Measured / Computed

Chaplygin

Crater (123.4 km) — Sergei Alekseevich; Soviet mathematician, engineer (1869-1942).

Coordinates
-5.7649, 150.2374 (positive-east)
Descriptor
Crater
Feature type
Crater, craters
Feature type code
AA
Diameter km
123.38611
Etymology
Sergei Alekseevich; Soviet mathematician, engineer (1869-1942).
Iau approval status
Adopted by IAU
Iau approval year
1970
Iau reference
http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/1143
Clean name
Chaplygin
Ethnicity
Soviet
Continent
Europe
Quad
LAC-85

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