STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC TYPES IN THE MICROTOPONYMY OF SPACE

The article's subject is analysis of microtoponyms both for planets as well as their moons, designation of their predominant semantic and structural types, and extraction of the basic characteristics of the terrain microsystem of cosmic nomenclature. Examination of the names of spatial formations of both types of object in the Solar System revealed that - despite many similarities - there are differences between them, which are dependent on the type of terrain 'formations' being named, their location, and recommendations of the International Astronomical Union, which controls onymic processes in Space.