Shahriyar [1] ( lat. and English. Shahryar ) is a 24-kilometer impact crater on the moon's surface of Saturn - Enceladus . The center coordinates are [2] The crater was found in the images of the Voyager 2 spacecraft, and after some time it was shot in detail by the Cassini-Huygens probe. This crater is the seventh largest on Enceladus , its diameter is 24 km [2] . Shahriyar Crater is almost the same size as Sinbad Crater, but despite this, it does not have a domed structure, it is assumed that the crater was not exposed to surface relaxation after impact. Carter is young from a geological point of view. The name of the crater was officially approved in 1982 [2] .
| Shahriyar | |
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 Shahriyar Crater (center), shot by the Cassini-Huygens space station | |
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| Diameter | about 24 km |
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| Eponym | Shahriyar |
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Eponym
It is named after Shakhriyar - the character described in the collection of folk tales " A Thousand and One Nights " [2] . Shahriyar is the ruler to whom his daughter Vezira Shahrazad told tales for 1001 nights [3] .
See also
- List of Enceladus relief details
Notes
- ↑ Nomenclature of relief details for Saturn’s satellites, 1986 , p. 49.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Enceldus: Shahryar crater . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature . International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) (November 6, 2014).
- ↑ Nomenclature of relief details for Saturn’s satellites, 1986 , p. 48.
Literature
- Burba G. A. Nomenclature of the relief details of Saturn's satellites / Otv. ed. K.P. Florensky and Yu. I. Efremov. - M .: Nauka, 1986 .-- 80 p.