Mairan

Crater (39.5 km) — Jean Jacques D'Ortous De; French geophysicist (1678-1771).

Coordinates

41.5965, -43.4979 (positive-east)

Descriptor

Crater

Feature type

Crater, craters

Feature type code

AA

Diameter km

39.49226

Etymology

Jean Jacques D'Ortous De; French geophysicist (1678-1771).

Iau approval status

Adopted by IAU

Iau approval year

1935

Iau reference

http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/3597

Clean name

Mairan

Ethnicity

France

Continent

Europe

Quad

LAC-23

Primary source