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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Parwez

Basic Info

Feature Name Parwez
Clean Name Parwez
Feature ID 14615
Target Enceladus
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


UNKNOWN
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude 22.53 °
Southmost Latitude 19.66 °
Eastmost Longitude 23.98 °
Westmost Longitude 27.14 °
Diameter 13.49 km
Center Latitude 22.95 °
Center Longitude 25.56 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Nov 17, 2009
Continent Asia
Ethnicity Arabian
Origin Second prince, brother of Bahman and Perizadah in the tale "The Two Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette."
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 Aug 28, 2014 3:15 PM

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