Mary (moon crater)

Mary
Mary and surroundings ( Apollo 17 photo )
position	18.92 °  N , 27.39 °  O coordinates: 18 ° 55 '12 "  N , 27 ° 23' 24"  O
diameter	530 m
Card sheet	42 (PDF)
Named after	female English first name
Named since	1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Mary is a very small impact crater on the front of the moon on the border of Mare Serenitatis and Mare Tranquillitatis , northeast of Dawes crater and west of Fabrioni .

The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet 42C3 / S2 of the Topophotomap map series from NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1976.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topophotomap 42C3 / 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