Osman (moon crater)

Osman
Catena Davy with Osman ( Lunar Orbiter IV)
position	10.99 °  S , 6.3 °  W Coordinates: 10 ° 59 ′ 24 ″  S , 6 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W.
diameter	2 km
Card sheet	77 (PDF)
Named after	Turkish male name
Named since	1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Osman is a small impact crater on the front of the moon . It is part of the Catena Davy crater chain , which runs in a north-easterly direction through the interior of the Davy Y crater , which lies to the east of the Mare Cognitum .

The name designation goes back to an originally unofficial designation on sheet 77D1 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was adopted by the IAU in 1976.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topophotomap 77D1 / 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