Felix (moon crater)

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Felix
Felix Artemis Verne LTVT.JPG
Felix, Artemis and Verne ( Lunar Orbiter IV)
Felix (moon equatorial region)
Felix
position 25.08 °  N , 25.38 °  W Coordinates: 25 ° 4 '48 "  N , 25 ° 22' 48"  W.
diameter 1 km
Card sheet 40 (PDF)
Named after male first name
Named since 1979
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Felix is a small impact crater on the front of the moon in the Mare Imbrium between the crater Euler in the west and the crater Lambert in the east.

The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet 40A4 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was adopted by the IAU in 1976.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topophotomap 40A4 / 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