Krylov

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Krylov

Lat: 35.18°N, Long: 166.12°W, Diam: 53.2 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside)

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LROC image WAC No. M118580934ME. Calibrated by LROC_WAC_Previewer.

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(LAC zone 33C4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

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Krylov

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Alexei Nikolaevich Krylov (August 15, 1863 - October 26, 1945) was a Russian Naval engineer and applied mathematician. Krylov wrote about 300 papers and books. They span a wide range of topics, including shipbuilding, magnetism, artillery, mathematics, astronomy, and geodesy. Krylov also published the first Russian translation of Isaac Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1915).

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Mosaic of LAC 33.
Excerpt from the USGS Digital Atlas of the Moon.


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