Lemaître (moon crater)
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| position | 61.36 ° S , 149.98 ° W | |
| diameter | 94 km | |
| Card sheet | 133 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Georges Lemaître (1894–1966) | |
| Named since | 1970 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Lemaître is an impact crater on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the moon . It is located south of the older Minkowski crater and north of the Crommelin crater . Eijkman crater is located to the east-southeast .
The crater was named in 1970 by the IAU after the Belgian astrophysicist and priest Georges Lemaître , the founder of the Big Bang theory .