Al-Kuz (crater)

EncelGeo-Crater
name=Al-Kuz
picture=
Al-Kuz (left center) as seen
by the "Cassini" spacecraft on July 14, 2005
location=18.6°S, 174.7°W
diameter=8.8 km
depth=
discoverer="Cassini"
naming=Al-Kuz; Barber's fourth brother

Al-Kuz is an impact crater on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Al-Kuz was first observed in "Cassini" images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 18.6° South Latitude, 174.7° West Longitude, and is 8.8 kilometers across. Since the crater's formation, numerous southwest-northeast trending fractures cut across the crater, forming canyons several hundred meters deep along the crater's rim. In addition, a smaller impact occurred along the northern crater wall, forming a crater 4 kilometers wide.

Al-Kuz is named after one of the barber's six brothers in the "The Hunchback's Tale" in "The Book of One Thousand and One Nights".