Alder (moon crater)
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| Composed of photos of the Clementine probe | ||
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| position | 48.63 ° S , 177.88 ° W | |
| diameter | 82 km | |
| Card sheet | 132 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Kurt Alder (1902-1958) | |
| Named since | 1979 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Alder is a moon crater on the back of the moon in the southern hemisphere. The crater was named in 1979 by the IAU after the German chemist and Nobel Prize winner Kurt Alder .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| E. | 47.97 ° S , 173.5 ° W | 19 km | [1] |
source
A picture of the Lunar Orbiter 5 .