Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedMenelaus
Crater (27.1 km) — Of Alexandria; Greek geometer, astronomer (c. A.D. 98).
- Coordinates
- 16.2593, 15.9294 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 27.133253
- Etymology
- Of Alexandria; Greek geometer, astronomer (c. A.D. 98).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1935
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/3840
- Clean name
- Menelaus
- Ethnicity
- Greek
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-42
Primary source