Susan (moon crater)

Susan
Catena Davy with Susan ( Lunar Orbiter IV)
position	11.01 °  S , 6.36 °  W Coordinates: 11 ° 0 ′ 36 "  S , 6 ° 21 ′ 36"  W
diameter	1 km
Card sheet	77 (PDF)
Named after	English female name
Named since	1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Susan is a small impact crater on the front of the moon . It is part of the Catena Davy crater chain , which runs in a north-easterly direction through the interior of the Davy Y crater , which lies to the east of the Mare Cognitum .

The name designation goes back to an originally unofficial designation on sheet 77D1 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was adopted by the IAU in 1976.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topophotomap 77D1 / 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