Rocco (moon crater)
| Rocco | ||
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| Warrior with Rocco ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 28.91 ° N , 45 ° W | |
| diameter | 5 km | |
| depth | 880 m | |
| Card sheet | 39 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after | First name Rocco | |
| Named since | 1976 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Rocco is a small impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon on the eastern edge of Krieger crater .
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 designation on Topophotomap 39A / 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).
The former name of Rocco was Krieger D .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georges VISCARDY: Atlas guide photographique de la lune. Ouvrage de référence à haute résolution. Masson, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-225-81090-7 .
- ↑ Topophotomap 39A / S1
- ↑ Excerpt from Transactions of the IAU Vol. XVIB, Ed. By D. Riedel, 1977