Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedPontanus
Crater (55.7 km) — Pontano, Giovanni Gioviani; Italian astronomer (1427-1503).
- Coordinates
- -28.4223, 14.3562 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 55.662315
- Etymology
- Pontano, Giovanni Gioviani; Italian astronomer (1427-1503).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1935
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/4797
- Clean name
- Pontanus
- Ethnicity
- Italy
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-96
Primary source