Catena Brigitte

Catena Brigitte
	Catena Brigitte and surroundings (photo Apollo 17 )
position	18.49 ° N , 27.5 ° E Coordinates: 18 ° 29 '24 " N , 27 ° 30' 0" E
diameter	8 kilometers
Named after	female first name
	See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Catena Brigitte is a very small catena on the Earth's moon , in the plain of the Mare Serenitatis , northeast of the Dawes crater .

The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet 42C3 / S2 of the Topophotomap map series from NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1976.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Topophotomap 42C3 / S2
^ 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

[1] Topophotomap 42C3 / S2

[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