Gassendi

lunar crater at the northern edge of Mare Humorum
Place impact_crater Q631753
Gassendi
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Gassendi

Summary

Gassendi is an impact crater[1]. Gassendi ranks in the top 5% of impact_crater entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Gassendi's image is recorded as Gassendi LO.png[3].
  • Gassendi's instance of is recorded as impact crater[4].
  • Pierre Gassendi is named after Gassendi[5].
  • Gassendi's location is recorded as LQ19[6].
  • Gassendi's Commons category is recorded as Gassendi (crater)[7].
  • Gassendi's located on astronomical body is recorded as Moon[8].
  • Gassendi's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -17.55, 'lon': -39.96}[9].
  • Gassendi's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03x7t0[10].
  • Gassendi's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+111'}[11].
  • Gassendi's Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID is recorded as 2111[12].
  • Gassendi's vertical depth is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+1900'}[13].
  • Gassendi's 3D model is recorded as Gassendicrater3Xv.stl[14].

Body

Designation and Status

Gassendi's instance of is recorded as impact crater[4].

History and Context

Pierre Gassendi is named after Gassendi[5].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Gassendi include Rimae Gassendi[15], a rille[16].

Why It Matters

Gassendi ranks in the top 5% of impact_crater entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23 views/month).[2] Gassendi has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

Entities named for Gassendi include Rimae Gassendi[15], a rille[16].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [15] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Gassendi. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/gassendi
MLA “Gassendi.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/gassendi.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_gassendi_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Gassendi}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/gassendi}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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