Ivan (moon crater)

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Ivan
Herodotus + Aristarchus - LROC - WAC.JPG
Krater Prinz with Ivan at the top right ( LROC -WAC)
Ivan (moon equatorial region)
Ivan
position 26.86 °  N , 43.26 °  W Coordinates: 26 ° 51 '36 "  N , 43 ° 15' 36"  W.
diameter 4 km
depth 590 m
Card sheet 39 (PDF)
Named after First name Ivan
Named since 1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Ivan is a very small impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon . It is located northwest of the crater Prince and originally bore the name Prince B .

The name of the crater was not originally intended to be official. It was together with other unofficial designations smaller surface structures from the Topophotomap -Kartenserie of NASA by the IAU adopted 1976th The crater appears with this designation on Topophotomap 39A / S1.

The name itself appears in a list of male and female first names intended as crater names in the proceedings of the 16th General Assembly of the IAU (Grenoble 1976).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .
  2. Topophotomap 39A / S1
  3. Excerpt from Transactions of the IAU Vol. XVIB, Ed. By D. Riedel, 1977