Rupes Boris
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| Rupes Boris with Boris, Gaston and Linda ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 30.67 ° N , 33.61 ° W | |
| diameter | 9 km | |
| See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature | ||
The Rupes Boris are a small surface structure on the northwestern front of the moon on the western edge of the Mare Imbrium , east of the Delisle crater . It is not a lunar furrow , as the name actually suggests, but a ridge that belongs to the ejecta of the nearby Delisle. The Rima Delisle moon groove runs east of Rupes Boris , and the Rima Diophantus to the south .
The name of the structure 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 Rupes Boris appears with this name on Topophotomap 39B2 / S2.
The same applies to the small, sometimes almost invisible craters Boris (to a certain extent namesake for the Rupes ), Gaston and Linda , which are located in the immediate vicinity of Rupes Boris .
Their names appear 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).
| Surname | position | diameter | link |
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| Boris | 30.52 ° N , 33.51 ° W | 2 km | [1] |
| Gaston | 30.86 ° N , 33.98 ° W | 2 km | [2] |
| Linda | 30.67 ° N , 33.39 ° W | 1 km | [3] |
Web links
- Rupes Boris in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Rupes Boris on The-Moon Wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topophotomap 39B2 / S2
- ↑ Excerpt from Transactions of the IAU Vol. XVIB, Ed. By D. Riedel, 1977