Osiris (moon crater)

Osiris

Osiris (image of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter )

position

18.63 ° N , 27.66 ° E Coordinates: 18 ° 37 '48 " N , 27 ° 39' 36" E

diameter

1 km

Card sheet

42 (PDF)

Named after

Egyptian male name

Named since

1976

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

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Osiris is a very small volcanic 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.

Osiris and surroundings (photo Apollo 17 )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Weitz CM, Head JW: Spectral properties of the Marius Hills volcanic complex and implications for the formation of lunar domes and cones . In: Journal of Geophysical Research . 104, No. E8, 1999, pp. 18933-18956. bibcode : 1999JGR ... 10418933W . doi : 10.1029 / 1998JE000630 .
↑ Topophotomap 42C3 / S2
^ 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

[Weitz_1999-1] Weitz CM, Head JW: Spectral properties of the Marius Hills volcanic complex and implications for the formation of lunar domes and cones . In: Journal of Geophysical Research . 104, No. E8, 1999, pp. 18933-18956. bibcode : 1999JGR ... 10418933W . doi : 10.1029 / 1998JE000630 .

[2] Topophotomap 42C3 / S2

[3] 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