Lyapunov

(Liapunov)

Lat: 26.3°N, Long: 89.3°E, Diam: 66 km, Depth: km, Rükl: 27

left: LO-iv165-h3 . right: LROC . Lyapunov rests immediately west of dark floored crater Joliot

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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov(June 6, 1857 - November 3,1918 ) was a Russian mathematician and engineer. With his researches on celestial mechanics, he opened a new page in the history of global science, and showed the inaccuracy in the knowledge of several foreign scientists.
Name (Liapunov) given by Arthur and Whitaker in Rectified Lunar Atlas (1963) and approved by IAU in 1964 (Whitaker, 1999, p234).