Monira
Monira | ||
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Monira and surroundings ( Lunar Orbiter IV) | ||
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position | 12.57 ° S , 1.78 ° W | |
diameter | 1 km | |
Card sheet | 77 (PDF) | |
Named after | Arabic woman name | |
Named since | 1976 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Monira is a very small impact crater on the front of the moon on the northeast inner rim of Alphonsus crater .
The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet 77D3 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1976.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Topophotomap 77D3 / 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