Isabel (moon crater)

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Isabel
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Isabel (moon equatorial region)
Isabel
position 28.16 °  N , 34.08 °  W Coordinates: 28 ° 9 '36 "  N , 34 ° 4' 48"  W.
diameter 1 km
Card sheet 39 (PDF)
Named after female Spanish first name
Named since 1979
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Isabel is a small impact crater on the front of the moon northeast of Diophantus crater .

The name designation goes back to an originally unofficial designation on sheet 39B2 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1976.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Topophotomap 39B2 / 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