Yoshi (moon crater)

Yoshi
Aratus CA with Yoshi (photo taken by Apollo 15 )
position	24.54 °  N , 10.98 °  O coordinates: 24 ° 32 '24 "  N , 10 ° 58' 48"  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.

Web links

• Yoshi in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Yoshi on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topophotomap 42A4 / S2
2. ^ 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