Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedMetius
Crater (83.8 km) — Adriaan Adriaanszoon; Dutch astronomer (1571-1635).
- Coordinates
- -40.4244, 43.3727 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 83.814095
- Etymology
- Adriaan Adriaanszoon; Dutch astronomer (1571-1635).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1935
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/3873
- Clean name
- Metius
- Ethnicity
- The Netherlands (Dutch)
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-114
Primary source