Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedEncke
Crater (28.3 km) — Johann Franz; German mathematician, astronomer (1791-1865).
- Coordinates
- 4.5707, -36.683 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 28.266037
- Etymology
- Johann Franz; German mathematician, astronomer (1791-1865).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1935
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/1796
- Clean name
- Encke
- Ethnicity
- Germany
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-57
Primary source