Carlos (moon crater)

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Carlos
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Carlos ( LROC -NAC)
Carlos (moon equatorial region)
Carlos
position 24.88 °  N , 2.28 °  E Coordinates: 24 ° 52 '48 "  N , 2 ° 16' 48"  E
diameter 4 km
Card sheet 41 (PDF)
Named after Spanish man's name
Named since 1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Carlos is a small furrow structure on the front of the moon at the southern end of the Rima Hadley . Although not crater-shaped, it is listed as a crater in the nomenclature of the moon , as are the nearby structures Béla and Taizo .

The roll name goes to an originally unofficial name on sheet 41B4 / S3 of Topophotomap -Kartenserie of NASA back by the IAU was taken 1976th

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Topophotomap 41B4 / S3
  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