Joy (moon crater)
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| Joy (bottom right; LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 25.01 ° N , 6.56 ° E | |
| diameter | 5 km | |
| depth | 1200 m | |
| Card sheet | 41 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Alfred Harrison Joy (1882–1973) | |
| Named since | 1973 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Joy is a small impact crater west of the Mare Serenitatis . It is located in the eastern part of the mountainous and uneven area that separates the Palus Putredinis in the west from the Mare Serenitatis.
Joy has a circular, bowl-like shape with a slightly curved edge.
Before it was given its own name by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1973 , it was referred to as 'Hadley A'. The original namesake Mons Hadley lies in a west-northwest direction at the north end of the Mondappenninen .
Individual evidence
- ^ John Edward Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 , p. 277
Web links
- Joy in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Joy crater in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
