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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Documentation

The Documentation tabs provide access to supporting information about the IAU planetary nomenclature system. This information is relevant to understanding essential elements for any name proposal submitted to the IAU and for understanding the information displayed on individual feature name pages, in the search results table, and in the GIS shapefile attribute tables.