Donna (moon crater)

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Donna (bottom center) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)

position

7.21 ° N , 38.3 ° E Coordinates: 7 ° 12 '36 " N , 38 ° 18' 0" E

diameter

2 km

Card sheet

61 (PDF)

Named after

Italian woman name

Named since

1979

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

1.81

Donna is a very small crater on the front side of the moon in the plain of Mare Tranquillitatis , south of Cauchy crater and northwest of Zähringer .

The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet 61D2 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series from NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1979.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Topophotomap 61D2 / 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 61D2 / 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