Courtney (moon crater)
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| Courtney and small surface structures ( Lunar Orbiter IV) | ||
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| position | 25.12 ° N , 30.81 ° W | |
| diameter | 1 km | |
| Card sheet | 39 (PDF) | |
| Named after | female first name Courtney | |
| Named since | 1976 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Courtney is a very small impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon , on the southwestern edge of the Mare Imbrium , between the Diophantus craters in the northwest and Euler in the southeast.
Courtney as well as some small surface structures in the vicinity owe their name designation to their appearance on sheet 39B3 / S1 (Zahia) of NASA's Topophotomap map series, which was taken over by the IAU in 1976 .
These surface structures are:
- Rima Zahia , a moon groove east of Courtney
- Catena Yuri , a chain of craters southeast of Courtney
- Dorsum Thera , a dorsum southwest of Courtney
The names of these surface structures appear in a list of male and female first names in the Proceedings of the 16th General Assembly of the IAU (Grenoble 1976).
Web links
- Courtney in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Courtney on The-Moon Wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topophotomap 39B3 / S1
- ↑ Excerpt from Transactions of the IAU Vol. XVIB, Ed. By D. Riedel, 1977