Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedThomson
Crater (117.3 km) — Sir Joseph John; British physicist; Nobel laureate (1856-1940).
- Coordinates
- -32.3183, 166.0417 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 117.25293
- Etymology
- Sir Joseph John; British physicist; Nobel laureate (1856-1940).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1970
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/5977
- Clean name
- Thomson
- Ethnicity
- Great Britain
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-119
Primary source