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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Neruda
Clean Name Neruda
Feature ID 14391
Target Mercury
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude -51.20 °
Southmost Latitude -53.63 °
Eastmost Longitude 232.22 °
Westmost Longitude 236.45 °
Diameter 110.00 km
Center Latitude -52.47 °
Center Longitude 234.55 °
Northmost Latitude -51.30 °
Southmost Latitude -53.92 °
Eastmost Longitude 232.05 °
Westmost Longitude 236.36 °
Diameter 111.55 km
Center Latitude -52.61 °
Center Longitude 234.20 °
Northmost Latitude -51.35 °
Southmost Latitude -53.97 °
Eastmost Longitude 232.05 °
Westmost Longitude 236.36 °
Diameter 112.00 km
Center Latitude -52.66 °
Center Longitude 234.21 °
Quad H-13 [pdf]

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Apr 08, 2008
Continent Europe
Ethnicity Czechoslovakia
Origin Jan; Czech poet, journalist, writer, and art critic (1834-1891); Johann Baptist Georg; Classical Czech composer (1708-1780).
Reference [646] - Jan Neruda, in Czechoslovak Stories, translated and edited by Šárka B. Hrbkova: Duffield and Company, New York, 1920.
Updated Jul 23, 2024 9:26 PM
Additional Information Origin changed from "Pablo; Chilean poet (1904-1973)" to "Jan; Czech poet, journalist, writer, and art critic (1834-1891); Johann Baptist Georg; Classical Czech composer (1708-1780)" on September 27, 2022. Reference for Johann Baptist Georg Neruda: Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire, Volume 20, pg. 189, edited and published by Constantin von Wurzbach (in German, the Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich or BLKÖ). https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/BLK%C3%96:Neruda,_Johann_Georg

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