Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedOrontius
Crater (121.0 km) — Oronce Fine (Orontius Finaeus Delphinatus); French mathematician, cartographer (1494-1555).
- Coordinates
- -40.3691, -3.9599 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 121.01895
- Etymology
- Oronce Fine (Orontius Finaeus Delphinatus); French mathematician, cartographer (1494-1555).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1935
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/4497
- Clean name
- Orontius
- Ethnicity
- France
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-112
Primary source