Dag (moon crater)

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Dag
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Dag
Dag (moon equatorial region)
Dag
position 18.69 °  N , 5.25 °  E Coordinates: 18 ° 41 '24 "  N , 5 ° 15' 0"  E
diameter 360 m
Card sheet 41 (PDF)
Named after male first name
Named since 1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Dag is a very small impact crater on the front of the moon in Lacus Felicitatis north of Yangel crater .

The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet 41C3 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1979.

Dag, Ina , Osama and Mons Agnes ( Apollo 17 recording)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Topophotomap 41C3 / S1
  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