Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedPopov
Crater (71.4 km) — Aleksandr Stepanovich; Russian physicist, engineer (1859-1905); C.; Bulgarian astronomer (1880-1966).
- Coordinates
- 16.9336, 99.3759 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 71.395248
- Etymology
- Aleksandr Stepanovich; Russian physicist, engineer (1859-1905); C.; Bulgarian astronomer (1880-1966).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1961
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/4800
- Clean name
- Popov
- Ethnicity
- Russia
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-46
Primary source