Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedCatena Michelson (GIRD)
Catena (450.6 km) — Named from nearby crater; GIRD=Group for the Study of Reaction Motion.
- Coordinates
- -0.4422, -113.5812 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Catena
- Feature type
- Catena, catenae
- Feature type code
- CA
- Diameter km
- 450.59839
- Etymology
- Named from nearby crater; GIRD=Group for the Study of Reaction Motion.
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1979
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/1068
- Clean name
- Catena Michelson GIRD
- Ethnicity
- Germany
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-89
Primary source