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■ Measured / ComputedCompton
Crater (164.6 km) — Arthur Holly; American physicist, Nobel laureate (1892-1962); Karl Taylor; American physicist (1887-1954).
- Coordinates
- 55.8622, 104.0548 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 164.62753
- Etymology
- Arthur Holly; American physicist, Nobel laureate (1892-1962); Karl Taylor; American physicist (1887-1954).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1970
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/1278
- Clean name
- Compton
- Ethnicity
- American
- Continent
- North America
- Quad
- LAC-16
Primary source