Soraya (moon crater)

Soraya
Soraya and surroundings ( Lunar Orbiter IV)
position	12.88 °  S , 1.69 °  W Coordinates: 12 ° 52 '48 "  S , 1 ° 41' 24"  W.
diameter	2 km
Card sheet	77 (PDF)
Named after	Persian woman name
Named since	1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Soraya is a very small impact crater on the front of the moon on the northeast inner rim of Alphonsus crater .

The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet 77D3 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1976.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topophotomap 77D3 / 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