Walter (moon crater)
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| position | 28.02 ° N , 33.82 ° W | |
| diameter | 1 km | |
| Card sheet | 39 (PDF) | |
| Named after | male first name | |
| Named since | 1979 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Walter is a small impact crater on the front of the moon northeast of the Diophantus crater .
The name designation goes back to an originally unofficial designation on sheet 39B2 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1976.
Web links
- Walter in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Walter on The-Moon Wiki
- Spektrum.de: Amateur recordings [1]
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topophotomap 39B2 / S1
- ^ 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