Aratus CA
| Aratus CA | ||
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| Aratus CA with secondary structures and dorsum owen (photo by Apollo 15 ) | ||
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| position | 24.52 ° N , 11.17 ° E | |
| diameter | 7 km | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Aratus CA is a surface structure on the moon . It is not, as the name would suggest, a secondary crater of Aratus , but a depression in the plain of the Mare Serenitatis that is far removed from the main crater and not connected to it . North of Aratus CA, Dorsum Owen runs north. Nearby are the small craters Manuel and Yoshi .
It is also unusual that parts of this depression were named individually:
| Surname | position | size | link |
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| Rima Sung-Mei | 24.57 ° N , 11.28 ° O | 4 km | [1] |
| Vallis Christel | 24.52 ° N , 11.09 ° E | 2 km | [2] |
| Vallis Krishna | 24.48 ° N , 11.25 ° E | 3 km | [3] |
Both Lorca (referring to Federico García Lorca ) and Krishna (referring to the Indian deity Krishna ) appear as names of the structure not authorized by the IAU .
literature
- R. Greeley: Photogeology of Aratus Ca, Mare Serenitatis. In: Abstracts of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Vol. 7, 1976, pp. 331-333, bibcode : 1976LPI ..... 7..331G .
- Topophotomaps :