Harold (moon crater)

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Harold
Davy Chain Craters LO-IV-108H LTVT.JPG
Catena Davy with Harold ( Lunar Orbiter IV)
Harold (moon equatorial region)
Harold
position 10.89 °  S , 6.12 °  W Coordinates: 10 ° 53 '24 "  S , 6 ° 7' 12"  W
diameter 1 km
Card sheet 77 (PDF)
Named after Scandinavian male name
Named since 1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Harold is a small impact crater on the front of the moon . It is part of the Catena Davy crater chain , which runs in a north-easterly direction through the interior of the Davy Y crater , which lies to the east of the Mare Cognitum .

The name designation goes back to an originally unofficial designation on sheet 77D1 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was adopted by the IAU in 1976.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Topophotomap 77D1 / 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