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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Baghdad Sulcus
Clean Name Baghdad Sulcus
Feature ID 14248
Target Enceladus
Feature Type Sulcus, sulci

Location


UNKNOWN
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude -68.46 °
Southmost Latitude -71.25 °
Eastmost Longitude 36.98 °
Westmost Longitude 225.13 °
Diameter 176.00 km
Center Latitude -86.91 °
Center Longitude 230.54 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Nov 07, 2006
Continent Asia
Ethnicity Arabian
Origin City where the hunchback did his tailoring in "The Hunchback’s Tale" from Richard F. Burton's Arabian Nights.
Reference [52] - Alf Laylah Wa Laylah, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, by Richard F. Burton: Larsen-Harper, Colo. Press, Denver, Colo., 1900.
Updated Nov 17, 2008 3:58 PM

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