Igor Crater ( Latin: Igor ) is a small impact crater in the western part of the Sea of Rains on the visible side of the Moon , at the landing site of the Luna-17 spacecraft with Lunokhod-1 . The name is given in the Russian male name in honor of the crew commander of the second crew operator’s control of the Lunokhods Igor Leonidovich Fedorov and approved by the International Astronomical Union on June 14, 2012. Due to the small size of the crater according to the MAC rules, a personal name was chosen for it, in contrast to the names of large craters named after specific scientists.
| Igor | |
|---|---|
| lat Igor | |
 Map of the Lunokhod-1 route. | |
| Specifications | |
| Diameter | 0.1 km |
| Title | |
| Eponym | Russian male name, in honor of the crew commander of the second crew of the teleoperator control of Lunokhods Igor Leonidovich Fedorov . |
| Location | |
| Heavenly body | Moon |
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Crater Description
The crater is located approximately 500 meters north of the landing site of the Moon-17. In addition to this crater on the Lunokhod-1 route, the craters Borya , Vasya , Nicolas , Slava , Kostya , Vitya , Gena , Valera , Kolya , Leonid and Albert got their own names. Selenographic coordinates of the center of the crater , diameter 0.1 km [1] .
The crater is cup-shaped and dotted with many even more tiny craters.
Satellite Craters
Are absent
See also
- List of Craters on the Moon
- Lunar crater
- Morphological catalog of Moon Craters
- Planetary nomenclature
- Selenography
- Mineralogy of the Moon
- Geology of the moon
- Late heavy bombardment
Notes
Links
- Map of the Western Sea of Rains and the Rainbow Bay
- Selenological map of the vicinity of the crater
- Lunokhod-1 route map
- Description of the crater on The Moon-Wiki
- Dovgan V.G. Methods and methods of teleoperator control of lunar rovers (on the 40th anniversary of the Lunokhod-2 expedition)
- Dovgan, V.G. Lunar Odyssey of Russian Cosmonautics. From "Dreams" to Lunokhods / V.G. Dovgan; South Federal University. - Rostov-on-Don; Publishing House of the Southern Federal University, 2015. - 307 p. ISBN 978-5-9275-1532-5 .
- An article on the Lunar Picture Of the Day website
- Andersson, LE, and EA Whitaker, NASA Catalog of Lunar Nomenclature, NASA Reference Publication 1097, October 1982.