Ganskiy is a
lunar impact crater
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that is located on the
far side of the
Moon
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. It lies to the southeast of the walled plain
Hirayama.
The rim of this crater is roughly circular, with a slight
hexagon
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Regular hexagon
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al appearance. There is some wear along the rim, particularly along the southwest where a pair of small craterlets lie next to the edge. The inner sides are unremarkable, and the interior floor is relatively level with a slight rise to the south of the midpoint. There is a tiny crater near the western inner wall.
This crater is sometimes listed as ''Ganskij'', ''Hansky'', or ''Hanskiy'', but ''Ganskiy'' is the spelling recognized by the
IAU
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.
Ganskiy
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) The crater's name was approved in 1970.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Ganskiy.
Ganskiy M crater was renamed 8 Homeward in October 2018.
File:8 Homeward crater AS17-P-2866.jpg, Oblique view of 8 Homeward crater (formerly Ganskiy M) from Apollo 17
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panoramic camera
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External links
LTO-82D2 Ganskij
— L&PI topographic map
In modern mapping, a topographic map or topographic sheet is a type of map characterized by large- scale detail and quantitative representation of relief features, usually using contour lines (connecting points of equal elevation), but histori ...
* :ru:Ганский, Алексей Павлович (Aleksey P. Ganskiy in Russian Wikipedia)
Impact craters on the Moon