Manuel (moon crater)
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Aratus CA with Manuel (photo from Apollo 15 ) | ||
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position | 24.45 ° N , 11.35 ° 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.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Topophotomap 42A4 / S2
- ^ 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