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Crater-class cargo ship

Crater-class cargo ship is a category of freighter that was constructed for use by the United States Navy during World War II under Maritime Commission EC2-S-C1 type.

LARLE crater

Meteor Crater is perhaps the best-known example of a small impact crater on the Earth.


3281 Maupertuis

The crater was named for the French mathematician and astronomer Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698 – 1759).

Aban, Russia

The name Aban has been used for a crater on the planet Mars by the International Astronomical Union, although not specifically commemorating the village.

Acamarachi

This is most likely the second highest crater lake in the world, and also the third highest lake of any kind in South America, behind the crater lake of Ojos del Salado and the small lagoon in the col between Tres Cruces Sur and Tres Cruces Norte.

Achar, Uruguay

The name Achar has been used for a crater on the planet Mars by the International Astronomical Union, although not specifically commemorating the village.

Adrien de Gerlache

Several geographical features were named in his honor, mostly in Antarctica: Cape Gerlache, Mount Gerlache, Gerlache Inlet, Gerlache Island, Gerlache Strait and the de Gerlache seamounts, as well as Pic de Gerlache in Greenland and de Gerlache crater, near the south pole of the moon.

Aki, Kōchi

The name Aki has been used for a crater on the planet Mars by the International Astronomical Union, although not specifically commemorating the city.

Al-Harra, Syria

The village itself was built around the eastern section of a small volcanic crater in the southeastern base of the Harrat ash-Shamah (Tell al-Harra) elevation.

Aleksey Krylov

The crater Krylov on the Moon is named after him, as are the Krylov Peninsula and the Krylov State Research Center (a shipbuilding research institute of which Krylov had been superintendent).

Argo Bromo Anggrek

Mount Bromo which has a height of 2,392 m is in addition to storing the meaning of cultural and religious rituals also presents the beauty of the crater and the natural beauty that makes the Mount Bromo became very popular and became one of the major tourist destinations of domestic tourists and foreign tourists.

Aristarkh Belopolsky

The crater Belopol'skiy on the Moon, the asteroid 1004 Belopolskya and an award of the Russian Academy of Sciences are named after him.

Bolide

For example, the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center of the USGS uses bolide as a generic term that describes any large crater-forming impacting body of which its composition (for example, whether it is a rocky or metallic asteroid, or an icy comet) is unknown.

Burckle Crater

Burckle Crater is an undersea feature hypothesized to be an impact crater by the Holocene Impact Working Group.

Chicxulub impactor

The impactor's crater is more than 150 km (93 miles) in diameter, making it one of the largest known impact craters on Earth.

Dallam School

A crater on the moon - the Whewell (crater) - is named after a Heversham old boy, the distinguished polymath William Whewell (1794–1866).

Devon Island

On July 16, 2013, the Canadian Space Agency assigned Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen to a secondment with the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration of the University of Western Ontario at Haughton Crater in preparation for a potential future manned exploration of Mars, the Moon or the asteroids.

Doros crater

Doros crater is a differentiated igneous intrusion in the Damaraland region of Namibia to the northwest of the country's highest peak, Brandberg.

Erich von Drygalski

Drygalski Island, Drygalski Glacier, Drygalski Fjord in South Georgia, and an avenue in the southern part of Munich were named after him, as is the crater Drygalski on the Moon.

Firmicus

The Christian astrologer Julius Firmicus Maternus (fourth century), after whom the crater is named.

Forest Ray Moulton

The crater Moulton on the Moon, the Adams-Moulton methods for solving differential equations and the Moulton plane in geometry are named after him.

Fort Rock Basin

Near the summit, the uppermost palagonites are overlain by massive cinders and bombs from fire-fountaining that preceded the filling of the crater with lava.

Fra Mauro formation

The formation, as well as Fra Mauro crater, take their names from a 15th-century Italian monk and mapmaker of the same name.

It is named after the 80-kilometer-diameter crater Fra Mauro, located within it.

Frances Brooke

In 1985, the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature honoured Frances Moore Brooke by naming a crater after her on the surface of the planet Venus.

Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin

Perrotin crater on Mars has been named in his honor, as has asteroid 1515 Perrotin.

Johann Georg Tralles

The crater Tralles on the Moon is named after him, as is the alcoholmeter he invented.

Júlíana Sveinsdóttir

Following the first Mercury fly-by of NASA spacecraft MESSENGER, one of the newly discovered craters was named after Sveinsdóttir.

Kiyoko

Kiyoko Matsumoto (松本 貴代子), a person known for having committed suicide by jumping into the crater of Mount Mihara in 1933 which started a trend all over Japan

Laurence Bergreen

In 2007, Bergreen was asked by NASA to name some geological features surrounding the Victoria crater on Mars, based on places Ferdinand Magellan visited.

Lenz, Klamath County, Oregon

Lenz is an unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States on U.S. Route 97, directly east of Crater Lake and 20 miles south of Chemult.

Manicouagan

Manicouagan Reservoir, formed when the Manicouagan impact crater was converted to a reservoir.

Manicouagan River

The Manicouagan crater is the sixth-largest confirmed impact crater known on earth.

Marcus O'Day

The crater O'Day on the Moon is named after him, as is the "Marcus D. O'Day award".

Mumtaz Mahal

A crater was named in her honour on asteroid 433 Eros, along with another one after her husband.

Oodnadatta

The name Oodnadatta has been used as a name for a crater on the planet Mars.

Oronce Finé

The lunar crater Orontius and Finaeus Cove in Antarctica are named after Oronce Finé, using his Latinized name.

Phocylides

:For the crater, see Phocylides (crater), which is named after Johannes Phocylides Holwarda.

Pingualuit crater

The Pingualuit Crater (French: cratère des Pingualuit; Inuktitut, "where the land rises"), formerly called Chubb Crater and later New Quebec Crater (cratère du Nouveau-Québec), is a young impact crater, by geological standards, located in the Ungava Peninsula of Quebec.

Poços de Caldas

The topography is highly suggestive of a volcanic crater and, given that the region's rocks are indeed igneous and there are hot springs, this gave rise to a common misconception that Poços de Caldas would be located inside the crater of a large extinct volcano.

Prohepialus

It contains only one species, Prohepialus incertus, which was described from a Thanetian crater lake diatomite (Paleocene) in Menat (Puy-de-Dôme), France.

Puchezh-Katunki crater

Puchezh-Katunki is a meteor crater in the Chkalovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Volga Federal District, Russia.

Quorn, South Australia

The name Quorn has been used as a name for a crater on the planet Mars, without commemorating the town.

Sinas

Simon Sinas (1810-1876), Georgios' son, Greek benefactor and diplomat, after whom the Sinas crater is named

Snæfellsjökull

Svalþúfa is most likely the eastern section of a crater that erupted under the sea, while Lóndrangar is a volcanic plug.

TMA-1

TMA-1 (Tycho Magnetic Anomaly - 1), the Monolith (Space Odyssey) found in the moon's Tycho crater in the book and film 2001: A Space Odyssey

Vallis Schrödinger

The valley was named after the crater Schrödinger, which itself is named for Erwin Schrödinger.

Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway

South of Crater Lake, the byway continues down Oregon Route 62, with Mount Scott on the east, to Fort Klamath, whereupon it heads west on Weed Road to Sevenmile Road, then south on West Side Road along the edge of the Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge and Upper Klamath Lake.

Volcano Lake

Volcano Lake, formally called Crater Lake, is a lake on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, located just south of Puzzle Mountain and west of Elkhorn Mountain on west side of Strathcona Provincial Park.


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