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Kiess

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Kiess

Summary

Kiess is a lunar crater[1]. Kiess ranks in the top 4% of lunar_crater entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Kiess's image is recorded as Keiss crater Widmannstatten crater AS17-M-2834.jpg[3].
  • Kiess's instance of is recorded as lunar crater[4].
  • Carl Clarence Kiess is named after Kiess[5].
  • Kiess's location is recorded as LQ21[6].
  • Kiess's Commons category is recorded as Kiess (crater)[7].
  • Kiess's located on astronomical body is recorded as Moon[8].
  • Kiess's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -6.41, 'lon': 84.11}[9].
  • Kiess's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/056jsx[10].
  • Kiess's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+67.8'}[11].
  • Kiess's Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID is recorded as 3026[12].

Why It Matters

Kiess ranks in the top 4% of lunar_crater entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).[2] Kiess has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13]

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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Kiess. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/kiess
MLA “Kiess.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/kiess.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_kiess_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Kiess}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/kiess}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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