Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedKiess
Crater (67.8 km) — Carl Clarence; American astrophysicist (1887-1967).
- Coordinates
- -6.4092, 84.1108 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 67.786598
- Etymology
- Carl Clarence; American astrophysicist (1887-1967).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1973
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/3026
- Clean name
- Kiess
- Ethnicity
- American
- Continent
- North America
- Quad
- LAC-81
Primary source