Ango (moon crater)

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Ango
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Ango (moon equatorial region)
Ango
position 20.46 °  N , 32.34 °  W Coordinates: 20 ° 27 '36 "  N , 32 ° 20' 24"  W.
diameter 870 m
Card sheet 39 (PDF)
Named after African male first name
Named since 1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Ango is a small impact crater on the front of the moon northwest of Natasha crater .

The name designation goes back to an originally unofficial designation on sheet 39C2 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1976.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Topophotomap 39C2 / 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