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■ Measured / ComputedRhaeticus
Crater (44.4 km) — Georg Joachim von Lauchen of Rhaetia; Hungarian astronomer, mathematician (1514-1576).
- Coordinates
- 0.0318, 4.9241 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 44.427376
- Etymology
- Georg Joachim von Lauchen of Rhaetia; Hungarian astronomer, mathematician (1514-1576).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1935
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/5013
- Clean name
- Rhaeticus
- Ethnicity
- Hungary
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-59
Primary source