Spot

Spot (Apollo 16 site craterlet name)

Lat: 9.0°S, Long: 15.5°E, Diam: 0 km, Depth: km, Rükl: 45

Apollo 16 Site Traverses Chart

Images

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Maps

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Description

Description: Wikipedia

Spot (no Wikipedia page for this craterlet)
  Perhaps farfetched, but... it might be interesting to add the link of the Bright spots on asteroid Ceres instead... (call it Seeking surface formations on trans-lunar interplanetary bodies). - DannyCaes Nov 26, 2016
 
 

Additional Information

The Landing Site Name "Spot" is plotted on Site Traverses chart 78D2S2.
 
 

Nomenclature

Astronaut-named feature, Apollo 16 site.
  Why was this craterlet called "Spot"?
  Somewhere in the APOLLO LUNAR SURFACE JOURNAL (ALSJ) there should be an answer.
 
 

LPOD Articles

Bibliography

David M. Harland: EXPLORING THE MOON, the Apollo expeditions.
  Eric M. Jones: APOLLO LUNAR SURFACE JOURNAL (ALSJ).

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