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■ Measured / ComputedPeirescius
Crater (61.5 km) — Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri De; French astronomer, archaeologist (1580-1637).
- Coordinates
- -46.405, 67.7976 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 61.534519
- Etymology
- Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri De; French astronomer, archaeologist (1580-1637).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1935
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/4634
- Clean name
- Peirescius
- Ethnicity
- France
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-115
Primary source