Mavis (moon crater)

Mavis

Mavis, Annegrit and Charles ( Lunar Orbiter IV)

position

29.75 ° N , 26.36 ° W Coordinates: 29 ° 45 '0 " N , 26 ° 21' 36" W.

diameter

1 km

Card sheet

40 (PDF)

Named after

female first name

Named since

1976

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

1.09

Mavis is a small impact crater on the front of the moon south of the northern foothills of Dorsum Zirkel .

The name designation goes back to an originally unofficial designation on sheet 40A1 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1976.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Topophotomap 40A1 / 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 40A1 / 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