Mendeleev (moon crater)
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| Mendeleev as seen from Apollo 11 . | ||
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| position | 5.38 ° N , 141.17 ° O | |
| diameter | 325 km | |
| Card sheet | 66 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834–1907) | |
| Named since | 1961 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Mendeleev is one of the largest impact craters on Earth's moon , which is on the far side of the moon . The crater was named after the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev and has a diameter of around 325 kilometers. It has only one side crater, namely Mendeleev P.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| P | 2.15 ° N , 139.93 ° O | 33 km | [1] |