Manuel (moon crater)

Manuel
Aratus CA with Manuel (photo from Apollo 15 )
position	24.45 °  N , 11.35 °  E Coordinates: 24 ° 27 '0 "  N , 11 ° 21' 0"  E
diameter	570 m
Card sheet	42 (PDF)
Named after	Spanish man's name
Named since	1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Manuel is a very small crater on the northeast moon front side in the plane of the Mare Serenitatis immediately at the sink of the moon Aratus CA .

The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet Topophotomap 42A4 / S2 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1976.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topophotomap 42A4 / S2
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