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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Sextilia
Clean Name Sextilia
Feature ID 14887
Target Vesta
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


IAU Coordinate System for (4) Vesta
Coordinate System Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude -36.82 °
Southmost Latitude -41.18 °
Eastmost Longitude 298.75 °
Westmost Longitude 293.12 °
Diameter 19.48 km
Center Latitude -39.00 °
Center Longitude 295.93 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Sep 30, 2011
Continent Europe
Ethnicity Roman
Origin Roman vestal virgin (d. 274 B.C.).
Reference [256] - Rome’s Vestal Virgins: A study of Rome’s Vestal priestesses in the late Republic and early Empire, by Robin Lorsch Wildfang: Routledge, 2006.
Updated Mar 19, 2014 10:27 AM

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