Lenard is the former name of a
lunar
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impact crater
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located on the
lunar far side near the northern pole. The crater forms some of the wall of the crater
Hermite
Charles Hermite () FRS FRSE MIAS (24 December 1822 – 14 January 1901) was a French mathematician who did research concerning number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.
Hermi ...
, and is located North of the craters
Lovelace and
Froelich. Lenard was named after German
physicist
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Philipp Lenard
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard (; hu, Lénárd Fülöp Eduárd Antal; 7 June 1862 – 20 May 1947) was a Hungarian-born German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his work on cathode rays and the discovery of m ...
by the
IAU
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, formally adopted as such in 2008.
In 2020, upon learning of Lenard's support for the
Nazi Party
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, Charles Wood, the chair of the Task Group for Lunar Nomenclature at the IAU, recommended to the IAU that the name "Lenard" be replaced.
The name was dropped on August 12, 2020. Since then, this crater is officially unnamed.
See also
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Stark (crater)
Stark is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the southeast of the prominent crater Tsiolkovskiy, and north of Subbotin.
This is a heavily eroded crater with a jumbled outer rim and uneven interior. The pair of slightl ...
, another lunar crater whose name was dropped in 2020 due to Nazi connections.
References
External links
LAC-1 area- Map of northern lunar pole
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