Reuyl (crater)
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Crater on Mars
Planet | Mars |
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Coordinates | 9°48′S 193°12′W / 9.8°S 193.2°W / -9.8; -193.2 |
Quadrangle | Aeolis |
Eponym | Dirk Reuyl, a Dutch-American physicist and astronomer (1906–1972) |
Reuyl is a crater in the Aeolis quadrangle of Mars, located at 9.8° south latitude and 193.2° west longitude. It measures 85.9 kilometers in diameter and was named after Dirk Reuyl, a Dutch-American physicist and astronomer (1906–1972) who made astronomical measurements of the diameter of Mars in the 1940s.[1]
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Reuyl Crater Central Peak, as seen by HiRISE.
See also
References
- ^ "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature | Reuyl". usgs.gov. International Astronomical Union. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
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