Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedVirtanen
Crater (39.6 km) — Artturi Ilmari; Finnish agricultural biochemist; Nobel laureate (1895-1973).
- Coordinates
- 15.643, 176.7368 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 39.646759
- Etymology
- Artturi Ilmari; Finnish agricultural biochemist; Nobel laureate (1895-1973).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1979
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/6406
- Clean name
- Virtanen
- Ethnicity
- Finland
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-68
Primary source