What is "champollion"

Champollion was a planned cometary rendezvous and landing spacecraft. It was named after Jean-François Champollion, a French Egyptologist known for translating the Rosetta Stone.

Champollion is a lunar crater that lies on the far side of the Moon. It is located north-northeast of the larger crater Shayn, and south-southeast of Chandler.

This crater formation has been heavily damaged by subsequent impacts, and is now a battered depression in the surface. An unnamed crater overlays the eastern rim, and the remaining inner wall is incised along much of its circumference by lesser impacts. One of these forms a trough in the northern inner wall, with side walls that extend almost to the center of the floor.

Champollion may refer to:

Persons:

• Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832), French classical scholar
• Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, brother of the above mentioned
• Jean-François Champollion University Center for Teaching and Research, a French university in Albi
• Yves Champollion, creator of Wordfast

Science:

• Champollion (spacecraft), a planned cometary rendezvous and landing spacecraft
• Champollion (crater), a lunar crater