Aloha (moon crater)

Aloha
Aloha and Montes Agricola ( LROC -WAC)
position	29.77 °  N , 53.86 °  W Coordinates: 29 ° 46 '12 "  N , 53 ° 51' 36"  W.
diameter	3 km
Card sheet	38 (PDF)
Named after	Hawaiian female name
Named since	1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Aloha is a very small impact crater on the moon. It is located in the Oceanus Procellarum between the Montes Agricola, which runs south, and the relatively inconspicuous Rima Cleopatra moon groove .

The name of the crater was not originally intended to be official. It was together with other unofficial designations smaller surface structures from the Topophotomap -Kartenserie of NASA by the IAU adopted 1976th The crater appears with this name on topophotomap 38B2 / S1.

The name itself appears in a list of male and female first names intended as crater names in the Proceedings of the 16th General Assembly of the IAU (Grenoble 1976), i.e. not as the well-known Hawaiian greeting . He is not identified there as female, but appears in the IAU Planetary Gazetteer (see web links).

Rima Cleopatra and Aloha Crater, captured by Apollo 15

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topophotomap 38B2 / S1
2. ↑ Excerpt from Transactions of the IAU Vol. XVIB, Ed. By D. Riedel, 1977