Bliss (moon crater)
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| Bliss with Plato bottom right ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 53.06 ° N , 13.79 ° W | |
| diameter | 23 km | |
| Card sheet | 12 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Nathaniel Bliss (1700–1764) | |
| Named since | 2000 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Bliss is a relatively small impact crater to the north of the lunar front , northwest of the large Plato crater , between the Mare Frigoris in the north and the Mare Imbrium in the south.
The crater was renamed by the IAU in 2000 after the British astronomer Nathaniel Bliss . Until then, the crater was known as Plato A , tracing back to Johann Heinrich von Mädler .