Artemis (moon crater)
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| Artemis, Felix and Verne Crater ( Lunar Orbiter 4 ) | ||
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| position | 25.02 ° N , 25.36 ° W | |
| diameter | 2 km | |
| Card sheet | 40 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Greek female first name | |
| Named since | 1976 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Artemis is a small impact crater in the Mare Imbrium . Craters of this size usually form bowl-shaped cavities in the surface of the moon. Artemis is roughly halfway between Euler Crater in the west and Lambert Crater in the east. A few kilometers to the southeast is the even smaller Verne crater .
The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet 40A4 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was adopted by the IAU in 1976.
Web links
- Artemis in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Artemis on The-Moon Wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topophotomap 40A4 / S1
- ^ 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