La Caille

lunar impact crater
Place impact_crater Q630636
La Caille
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La Caille

Summary

La Caille is an impact crater[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of impact_crater entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • La Caille's image is recorded as La Caille crater 4108 h1.jpg[3].
  • La Caille's instance of is recorded as impact crater[4].
  • La Caille's instance of is recorded as lunar impact[5].
  • Nicolas Louis de Lacaille is named after La Caille[6].
  • La Caille's location is recorded as LQ20[7].
  • La Caille's Commons category is recorded as La Caille (crater)[8].
  • La Caille's located on astronomical body is recorded as Moon[9].
  • La Caille's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -23.68, 'lon': 1.08}[10].
  • La Caille's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03y242[11].
  • La Caille's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+67.2'}[12].
  • La Caille's Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID is recorded as 3185[13].
  • La Caille's vertical depth is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+2760'}[14].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include impact crater[4] and lunar impact[5].

History and Context

Nicolas Louis de Lacaille is named after La Caille[6].

Why It Matters

La Caille ranks in the top 6% of impact_crater entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

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] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). La Caille. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/la-caille
MLA “La Caille.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/la-caille.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_la-caille_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{La Caille}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/la-caille}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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