Diana (moon crater)

Diana

Diana and surroundings (photo taken by Apollo 17 )

position

14.28 ° N , 35.65 ° O coordinates: 14 ° 16 '48 " N , 35 ° 39' 0" O

diameter

2 km

Card sheet

61 (PDF)

Named after

female first name

Named since

1979

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

1.6

Diana is a small impact crater on the front of the moon in the Mare Tranquillitatis plain , west of Lucian crater and south of Mons Esam .

The name designation goes back to an originally unofficial designation on sheet 61A2 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1979.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Topophotomap 61A2 / S1
^ 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 61A2 / 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