Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedSlipher
Crater (74.6 km) — Earl Charles; American astronomer (1883-1964); Vesto Melvin; American astronomer (1875-1969).
- Coordinates
- 49.279, 160.2683 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 74.645958
- Etymology
- Earl Charles; American astronomer (1883-1964); Vesto Melvin; American astronomer (1875-1969).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1970
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/5599
- Clean name
- Slipher
- Ethnicity
- American
- Continent
- North America
- Quad
- LAC-18
Primary source