Pupin (moon crater)

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Pupin
Pupin (moon equatorial region)
Pupin
position 23.86 °  N , 11 °  W Coordinates: 23 ° 51 ′ 36 "  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 0"  W
diameter 2 km
Card sheet 40 (PDF)
Type ALC
Named after Mihajlo Pupin (1858-1935)
Named since 1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Pupin is a small impact crater on the front of the moon in the Mare Imbrium plain southeast of the Timocharis crater .

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1976 after the Serbian physicist Mihajlo Pupin .

Web links

  • Pupin in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
  • Pupin on The-Moon Wiki