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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Bunin
Clean Name Bunin
Feature ID 15859
Target Mercury
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


MESSENGER Team
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude 84.93 °
Southmost Latitude 84.00 °
Eastmost Longitude 137.19 °
Westmost Longitude 145.32 °
Diameter 37.00 km
Center Latitude 84.47 °
Center Longitude 141.76 °
Quad H-01 [pdf]

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Sep 11, 2019
Continent Europe
Ethnicity Russia
Origin Ivan, Russian author of prose and poetry; first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933. (1861 – 1941).
Reference [544] - The Facts On File Companion to the World Novel: 1900 to Present. Ed by Michael Sollars and Arbolina Llamas Jennings. Facts On File, New York, NY. 2008. P. 113.
Updated Sep 11, 2019 11:12 AM

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