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[PPS06-P19]Correct Names of the Lunar Features in Japanese

*Sato Isao1 (1.Japan Astronomical Names Net)

Keywords:

lunar features,Latin words,crater,Japanese translation

Since 1610 when Galileo Galilei first observed Moon by a telescope, many of the lunar feature were named in Latin.
But some of the names are incorrectly written in Japanese. We show the examples of them.