Jomo (moon crater)

Jomo
position	24.41 °  N , 2.44 °  E Coordinates: 24 ° 24 '36 "  N , 2 ° 26' 24"  E
diameter	7 km
Card sheet	41 (PDF)
Named after	African male name
Named since	1979
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Jomo moon crater.

Jomo is a small impact crater on the front of the moon at the southern end of the Rima Hadley .

The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet 41B4 / S3 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1979.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topophotomap 41B4 / S3
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