Monira

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Monira
Alphonsus Craterlets LO-IV-108H LTVT.JPG
Monira and surroundings ( Lunar Orbiter IV)
Monira (moon equatorial region)
Monira
position 12.57 °  S , 1.78 °  W Coordinates: 12 ° 34 '12 "  S , 1 ° 46" 48 "  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

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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.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Topophotomap 77D3 / 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