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■ Measured / ComputedRayleigh
Crater (113.8 km) — John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; British physicist; Nobel laureate (1842-1919).
- Coordinates
- 29.1194, 89.4467 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 113.76882
- Etymology
- John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; British physicist; Nobel laureate (1842-1919).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1964
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/4966
- Clean name
- Rayleigh
- Ethnicity
- Great Britain
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-45
Primary source