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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Grildrig

Basic Info

Feature Name Grildrig
Clean Name Grildrig
Feature ID 14260
Target Phobos
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


UNKNOWN
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude 89.00 °
Southmost Latitude 73.00 °
Eastmost Longitude 120.00 °
Westmost Longitude 270.00 °
Diameter 2.60 km
Center Latitude 81.00 °
Center Longitude 195.00 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Nov 29, 2006
Continent Europe
Ethnicity Ireland
Origin Name given to Gulliver by the farmer's daughter in the giants’ country Brobdingnag in Jonathan Swift's novel "Gulliver's Travels."
Reference [191] - Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, 1967.
Updated Nov 17, 2008 3:58 PM