Taizo (moon crater)

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Taizo
Rima Hadley - LROC - WAC.JPG
Rima Hadley with Taizo ( LROC -WAC)
Taizo (moon equatorial region)
Taizo
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

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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