Samir (moon crater)
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position | 28.48 ° N , 34.3 ° W | |
diameter | 2 km | |
Card sheet | 39 (PDF) | |
Named after | Arabic male name | |
Named since | 1979 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Samir is a small impact crater on the front of the moon northeast of the Diophantus crater .
The name designation goes back to an originally unofficial designation on sheet 39B2 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1976.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Topophotomap 39B2 / S1
- ^ 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