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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Masina
Clean Name Masina
Feature ID 16269
Target Moon
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


LOLA 2011
Coordinate System Planetographic, +East, -180 - 180
Northmost Latitude -85.39 °
Southmost Latitude -85.44 °
Eastmost Longitude 32.50 °
Westmost Longitude 31.83 °
Diameter 1.40 km
Center Latitude -85.42 °
Center Longitude 32.15 °
Quad LAC-144 [pdf]

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Mar 04, 2024
Continent Oceania
Culture Samoa
Origin Samoan female first name.
Reference [780] - Masina Samoan forename: https://forebears.io/x/forenames/masina, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/masina#Samoan
Updated Mar 04, 2024 7:49 PM

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