Vera (moon crater)
| Vera | ||
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| Krater Prinz with Vera at the top right ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 26.32 ° N , 43.72 ° W | |
| diameter | 2 km | |
| depth | 560 m | |
| Card sheet | 39 (PDF) | |
| Named after | female first name Vera | |
| Named since | 1976 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Vera is a very small impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon . It is located on the northwest wall of the crater Prince and originally bore the name of Prince A .
The name of the crater was not originally intended to be official. It was together with other unofficial designations smaller surface structures from the Topophotomap -Kartenserie of NASA by the IAU adopted 1976th The crater appears with this designation on Topophotomap 39A / S1.
The name itself appears in a list of male and female first names intended as crater names in the proceedings of the 16th General Assembly of the IAU (Grenoble 1976).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .
- ↑ Topophotomap 39A / S1
- ↑ Excerpt from Transactions of the IAU Vol. XVIB, Ed. By D. Riedel, 1977