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■ Measured / ComputedGauss
Crater (170.7 km) — Karl Friedrich; German mathematician (1777-1855).
- Coordinates
- 36.0063, 79.0767 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 170.72302
- Etymology
- Karl Friedrich; German mathematician (1777-1855).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1935
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/2120
- Clean name
- Gauss
- Ethnicity
- Germany
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-28
Primary source