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Feature Name

Lat

Long

Diam

Origin

Kaiser

36.5S

6.5E

52

Frederick ~ (1808-1872), Dutch astronomer.

Kamerlingh

15.0N

115.8W

66

Heike ~ Onnes (1853-1926), Dutch physicist; awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in physics "for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium."

Kane

63.1N

26.1E

54

Elisha Kent ~ (1820-1857), American explorer.

Kant

10.6S

20.1E

33

Immanuel ~  (1724-1804), German philosopher.

Kao

6.7S

87.6E

34

Ping-Tse ~ (1888-1970); Taiwanese astronomer.

Kapteyn

10.8S

70.6E

49

Jacobus C. ~ (1851-1922), Dutch astronomer.

Karima

25.9S

103.0E

3

Arabic female name; also market district in the Sudan.

Karpinskiy

73.3N

166.3E

92

Aleksey P. ~ (1846-1936), Soviet geologist.

Karrer

52.1S

141.8W

51

Paul ~ (1889-1971), Russian-Swiss biochemist; first to isolate vitamins A and K, and to synthesize vitamins B² and E. Awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his investigations on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B²."

Kasper

8.3N

122.1E

12

Polish male name.

Kästner

6.8S

78.5E

108

Abraham Gotthelf ~ (1719-1800), German mathematician and physicist.

Katchalsky

5.9N

116.1E

32

Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky (1914-1972), Polish-Israeli chemist; received the Israel Prize in 1961.

Kathleen

5.9N

116.1E

32

Irish female name.

Kearons

11.4S

112.6W

23

William M. ~ (1878-1948), American astronomer.

Keeler

10.2S

161.9E

160

James E. ~ (1857-1900), American astronomer.

Kekulé

16.4N

138.1W

94

Friedrich A. ~, later Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829-1896), German chemist and theorist.

Keldysh

51.2N

43.6E

33

Mstislav V. ~ (1911-1978), Soviet mathematician.

Kennedy 8.5 N

122.3E

117 John Fitzgerald ~ (1917-1963), 35th President of the United States; championed American space program, culminating in first manned Lunar landing. Honorary designation of former Crater Carol.

Kepinski

28.8N

126.6E

31

F. ~ (1885-1966), Polish astronomer.

Kepler

8.1N

38.0W

31

Johannes ~ (1571-1630), German astronomer.

Khvol'son

13.8S

111.4E

54

Orest D. ~ (1852-1934), Soviet physicist.

Kibal'chich

3.0N

146.5W

92

Nikolai Ivanovich ~ (1853-1881), Russian rocketry scientist.

Kidinnu

35.9N

122.9E

56

~, or Cidenas (?-c. 343 B.C.), Babylonian astronomer.

Kies

26.3S

22.5W

45

Johann ~ (1713-1781), German mathematician, astronomer.

Kiess

6.4S

84.0E

63

Carl Clarence ~ (1887-1967), American astrophysicist.

Kimura

57.1S

118.4E

28

Hisashi ~ (1870-1943), Japanese astronomer.

Kinau

60.8S

15.1E

41

C. A. ~ (?-fl. 1850), German botanist, selenographer.

King

5.0N

120.5E

76

Arthur S. ~ (1876-1957), American physicist; Edward S. ~ (1861-1931), American astronomer.

Kira

17.6S

132.8E

3

Russian female name.

Kirch

39.2N

5.6W

11

Gottfried ~ (1639-1710), German astronomer.

Kircher

67.1S

45.3W

72

Athanasius ~ (1601-1680), German mathematician and humanitarian.

Kirchhoff

30.3N

38.8E

24

Gustav Robert ~ (1824-1887), German physicist.

Kirkwood

68.8N

156.1W

67

Daniel ~ (1814-1895), American astronomer.

Klaproth

69.8S

26.0W

119

Martin Heinrich ~ (1743-1817), German chemist and mineralogist.

Klein

12.0S

2.6E

44

Hermann Joseph ~ (1844-1914), German astronomer.

Kleymenov

32.4S

140.2W

55

Ivan T. ~ (1898-1938), Soviet rocketry scientist.

Klute

37.2N

141.3W

75

Daniel O. ~ (1921-1964), American rocketry scientist.

Knox-Shaw

5.3N

80.2E

12

Harold ~ (1885-1970), British astronomer.

Koch

42.8S

150.1E

95

Robert ~ (1843-1910), German physician and researcher; discovered the cholera bacillus. Awarded the 1905 Nobel Prize in medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis."

Kohlschutter

14.4N

154.0E

53

Arnold ~ (1883-1969), German astronomer.

Kolhorster

11.2N

114.6W

97

Werner ~ (1887-1946), German physicist.

Komarov

24.7N

152.5E

78

Vladimir M. ~ (1927-1967), Soviet cosmonaut; first person to die on a spaceflight.

Kondratyuk

14.9S

115.5E

108

Yurij V. ~ (1897-1942), Soviet rocketry scientist.

Konig

24.1S

24.6W

23

Rudolf ~ (1865-1927), Austrian mathematician, astronomer.

Konoplev

28.5S

125.5W

25

B.T. ~ (1912-1960), Soviet radio engineer.

Konstantinov

9.8N

158.4E

66

Konstantin I. ~ (1817-1871), Russian rocketry scientist.

Kopff

17.4S

89.6W

41

August ~ (1882-1960), German astronomer.

Korolev

4.0S

157.4W

437

Sergei Pavlovich ~ (1906-1966), Soviet rocketry scientist; known as the father of the Russian space program.

Kosberg

20.2S

149.6E

15

C. A. ~ (1903-1965), Soviet aeronaut.

Kostinskiy

14.7N

118.8E

75

Sergei K. ~ (1867-1937), Soviet astronomer.

Koval'skij

21.9S

101.0E

49

Marian A. ~ ( 1821-1884), Russian astronomer.

Kovalevskaya

30.8N

129.6W

115

Sofia V. ~ (1850-1891), Russian mathematician.

Kozyrev

46.8S

129.3E

65

Nikolai A. ~ (1908-1983), Russian astronomer.

Krafft

16.6N

72.6W

51

Wolfgang Ludwig ~ (1743-1814), German astronomer, physicist.

Kramarov

2.3S

98.8W

20

G. M. ~ (1887-1970), Soviet space scientist.

Kramers

53.6N

127.6W

61

Hendrik A. ~ (1894-1952), Dutch physicist.

Krasnov

29.9S

79.6W

40

Aleksander V. ~ (1866-1907), Russian astronomer.

Krasovski

3.9N

175.5W

59

Feodosi N. ~ (1878-1948), Soviet geodesist.

Kreiken

9.0S

84.6E

23

Edberg Adrian ~ (1896-1964), Dutch educator and astronomer.

Krieger

29.0N

45.6W

22

Johann Nepomuk ~ (1865-1902), German selenographer.

Krishna

24.5N

11.3E

3

~, Most widely revered and most popular of all Indian divinities.

Krogh

9.4N

65.7E

19

Schack August Steenberg ~ (1874-1949), Danish zoologist and physiologist; awarded the 1920 Nobel Laureate in medicine "for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating mechanism."

Krusenstern

26.2S

5.9E

47

Adam Johann, Baron von ~ (1770-1846), Russian explorer.

Krylov

35.6N

165.8W

49

Aleksei Nikolaevich ~ (1863-1945), Soviet mathematician, compass theorist and mechanical engineer.

Kugler

53.8S

103.7E

65

Franz Xavier ~ (1862-1929), German Jesuit chronologist; an authority on Babylonian and biblical astronomy, chronology and mythology

Kuiper

9.8S

22.7W

6

Gerard Peter ~ (1905-1973), Dutch-American astronomer.

Kulik

42.4N

154.5W

58

Leonid A. ~ (1883-1942), Soviet mineralogist.

Kundt

11.5S

11.5W

10

August ~ (1839-1894), German physicist.

Kunowsky

3.2N

32.5W

18

Georg Karl Friedrich ~ (1786-1846), German astronomer.

Kuo Shou Ching

8.4N

133.7W

34

~ (1231-1316), Chinese astronomer; Kuo's torquetum, an early astronomical device capable of fixing star positions and producing conversions between equatorial and ecliptical coordinates, was the first astronomical device to use an equatorial mounting. It was constructed at Linfen, Shansi Province, but stands today at Nanjing, where it is utterly useless.

Kurchatov

38.3N

142.1E

106

Igor V. ~ (1903-1960), Soviet nuclear physicist; founding father of Soviet nuclear weapons program.

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