Debus

(Formerly Ganskiy H)

Lat: 10.5°S, Long: 99.6°E, Diam: 20 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside)

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Kurt Heinrich; German physicist (1908-1983).

This name was added to the IAU nomenclature in IAU Transactions XXIVB (2000).
During the hey-days of Project Apollo, the nomenclature of the moon's farside looked quite different, in such a way that the crater officially known as Vavilov was called Debus because of the first manned circumlunar mission of Apollo 8 in december 1968. See also the page NASA named craters on the equatorial zone of the moon's farside. - DannyCaes Sep 11, 2015