Ruth (moon crater)

Ruth
Warrior with Ruth ( LROC -WAC)
position	28.71 °  N , 45.06 °  W Coordinates: 28 ° 42 '36 "  N , 45 ° 3' 36"  W.
diameter	3 km
depth	580 m
Card sheet	39 (PDF)
Type	ALC
Named after	First name Ruth
Named since	1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Ruth is a small impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon on the eastern edge of the 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).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .
2. ↑ Topophotomap 39A / S1
3. ↑ Excerpt from Transactions of the IAU Vol. XVIB, Ed. By D. Riedel, 1977