Michael (moon crater)
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Michael ( LRO recording) | ||
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position | 25.04 ° N , 0.21 ° E | |
diameter | 3 km | |
Card sheet | 41 (PDF) | |
Named after | male first name | |
Named since | 1976 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Michael is a small moon crater on the front of the moon on the southern edge of the Palus Putredinis .
The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet 41A3 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1976.
Web links
- Michael in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Michael on The-Moon Wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topophotomap 41A3 / 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