Pupin (moon crater)
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position | 23.86 ° N , 11 ° 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 |
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 .