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Planetary Names: Rupes, rupēs: La Dauphine Rupes on Mercury

La Dauphine Rupes

Feature Name	La Dauphine Rupes
Clean Name	La Dauphine Rupes
Feature ID	15234
Target	Mercury
Feature Type	Rupes, rupēs
Coordinate System	Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Control Network	MESSENGER Team
Northernmost Latitude	69.11 °
Southernmost Latitude	63.71 °
Easternmost Longitude	26.62 °
Westernmost Longitude	29.83 °
Diameter	252.00 km
Center Latitude	66.30 °
Center Longitude	26.62 °
WKT String	LINESTRING (330.16772460938 63.709716796875, 330.34350585938 63.863525390625, 330.43139648438 64.039306640625, 330.54125976563 64.127197265625, 330.80493164063 64.346923828125, 331.13452148438 64.522705078125, 331.33227539063 64.720458984375, 331.53002929688 64.896240234375, 331.77172851563 65.006103515625, 332.12329101563 65.137939453125, 332.56274414063 65.445556640625, 332.84838867188 65.665283203125, 333.04614257813 65.731201171875, 333.26586914063 65.928955078125, 333.37573242188 66.038818359375, 333.37573242188 66.522216796875, 333.26586914063 66.917724609375, 333.19995117188 67.203369140625, 333.00219726563 67.335205078125, 332.82641601563 67.445068359375, 332.67260742188 67.642822265625, 332.67260742188 67.752685546875, 332.65063476563 68.148193359375, 332.45288085938 68.433837890625, 332.21118164063 68.587646484375, 332.05737304688 68.719482421875, 331.90356445313 68.807373046875, 331.81567382813 68.983154296875, 331.77172851563 69.114990234375)
Continent	Europe
Ethnic/Cultural Group or Country	France
Quad	H-01 [pdf]
Reference	[297] - Ships of Discovery and Exploration, by Lincoln P. Paine: Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2000.
Approval Status	Adopted by IAU
Approval Date	Feb 12, 2014
Origin	French; royal ship used for a voyage in search of the eastern coast of Asia, determined that North America was not an extension of Asia, 1524.
Last Updated	Oct 11, 2016 3:25 PM

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