Rima Marcello

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Rima Marcello
Catena Brigitte AS17-M-0597 LTVT.JPG
Rima Marcello and surroundings (photo Apollo 17 )
Rima Marcello (Moon Equatorial Region)
Rima Marcello
position 18.59 °  N , 27.73 °  E Coordinates: 18 ° 35 '24 "  N , 27 ° 43' 48"  E
diameter 4 km
Named after Italian man's name
See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Rima Marcello is a very small lunar groove on the Earth's moon , in the plain of the Mare Serenitatis , northeast of the Dawes crater .

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.

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Individual evidence

  1. Topophotomap 42C3 / S2
  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