Taizo (moon crater)
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Rima Hadley with Taizo ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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position | 24.68 ° N , 2.2 ° 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 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.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Topophotomap 41B4 / S3
- ^ 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