José (moon crater)

José

José and surroundings ( Lunar Orbiter IV)

position

12.69 ° S , 1.72 ° W Coordinates: 12 ° 41 '24 " S , 1 ° 43' 12" W.

diameter

1 km

Card sheet

77 (PDF)

Named after

Spanish man's name

Named since

1976

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

1.31

José is an impact crater on the front of the moon .

The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet 77D3 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1976.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Topophotomap 77D3 / S1
^ 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 77D3 / 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