Samir (moon crater)

Samir

position

28.48 ° N , 34.3 ° W Coordinates: 28 ° 28 ′ 48 " N , 34 ° 18 ′ 0" 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

1.86

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.

Web links

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

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

[1] Topophotomap 39B2 / S1

[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