Taizo (moon crater)

Taizo
Rima Hadley with Taizo ( LROC -WAC)
position	24.68 °  N , 2.2 °  E Coordinates: 24 ° 40 ′ 48 ″  N , 2 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E
diameter	8 kilometers
Card sheet	41 (PDF)
Named after	Japanese male name
Named since	1979
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Taizo moon crater.

Taizo is a small furrow structure on the front of the moon at the southern end of the Rima Hadley . Although not crater-shaped, it is listed as a crater in the lunar nomenclature , as are the nearby structures Béla and Carlos .

The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet 41B4 / S3 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1979.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topophotomap 41B4 / S3
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