Von Baeyer (moon crater)
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| position | 81.81 ° S , 61.77 ° O | |
| diameter | 13 km | |
| Card sheet | 144 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917) | |
| Named since | 2009 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
von Baeyer is a small impact crater on the front of the Moon near the South Pole, immediately northeast of Scott crater and northwest of Amundsen .
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 2009 after the German chemist and Nobel Prize winner Adolf von Baeyer .
Web links
- von Baeyer in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- by Baeyer on The-Moon Wiki