Gaston (moon crater)

Gaston

Rupes Boris with Boris, Gaston and Linda ( LROC -WAC)

position

30.86 ° N , 33.98 ° W Coordinates: 30 ° 51 '36 " N , 33 ° 58' 48" W.

diameter

2 km

Card sheet

39 (PDF)

Named after

male French first name

Named since

1979

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

2.02

Gaston is a small impact crater on the front of the moon east of the Delisle crater near the small moon groove Rupes Boris .

The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet 39B2 / S2 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1976.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Topophotomap 39B2 / S2
^ 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 39B2 / S2

[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