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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
Feature Information

Moon: Babcock

See Crater, craters in the descriptor terms page for additional information.

Direction of Increasing Longitude: east
Longitude Range: -180.0° to 180.0°

Feature Name Babcock Search for maps that cover Babcock in the Planetary Map Index
Latitude 4.2°
Longitude 93.9°
Diameter 99 KM
Continent North America
Ethnicity American
Map
Quadrangle LTO64D1
Approval Status 5: Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1970
Reference World Who's Who in Science, edited by Allen G. Debus; Western Publishing Company, Hannibal, Mo., 1968; New York, 1973.
Origin Harold Delos; American astronomer, physicist (1882-1968).

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