Yoshi (moon crater)
Yoshi | ||
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Aratus CA with Yoshi (photo taken by Apollo 15 ) | ||
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position | 24.54 ° N , 10.98 ° O | |
diameter | 500 m | |
Card sheet | 42 (PDF) | |
Named after | Japanese male name | |
Named since | 1976 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Yoshi is a very small crater on the northeast moon front side in the plane of the Mare Serenitatis immediately at the sink of the moon Aratus CA .
The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet Topophotomap 42A4 / S2 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1976.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Topophotomap 42A4 / S2
- ^ Excerpt from the Proceedings of the 16th General Assembly of the IAU (Grenoble 1976). In: Transactions of the IAU Vol. XVIB, ed. by D. Riedel, 1977