Alan (moon crater)

Alan
Catena Davy with Alan ( Lunar Orbiter IV)
position	10.95 °  S , 6.22 °  W Coordinates: 10 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  S , 6 ° 13 ′ 12 ″  W.
diameter	2 km
Card sheet	77 (PDF)
Named after	Irish male name
Named since	1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Alan is a small impact crater on the front of the moon . It is part of the Catena Davy crater chain , which runs in a north-easterly direction through the interior of the Davy Y crater , which lies to the east of the Mare Cognitum .

The name designation goes back to an originally unofficial designation on sheet 77D1 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was adopted by the IAU in 1976.

Web links

• Alan in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Alan on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topophotomap 77D1 / S1
2. ^ Excerpt from the Proceedings of the 16th General Assembly of the IAU (Grenoble 1976). In: Transactions of the IAU vol. XVIB, edited by D. Riedel, 1977