Priscilla (moon crater)
| Priscilla | ||
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| Catena Davy with Priscilla ( Lunar Orbiter IV) | ||
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| position | 10.97 ° S , 6.26 ° W | |
| diameter | 2 km | |
| Card sheet | 77 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Latin woman name | |
| Named since | 1976 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Priscilla 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
- Priscilla in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Priscilla on The-Moon Wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topophotomap 77D1 / 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