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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Baranauskas
Clean Name Baranauskas
Feature ID 15388
Target Mercury
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


MESSENGER Team
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude 51.15 °
Southmost Latitude 50.31 °
Eastmost Longitude 39.12 °
Westmost Longitude 40.40 °
Diameter 36.00 km
Center Latitude 50.73 °
Center Longitude 39.76 °
Quad H-02 [pdf]

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Sep 25, 2015
Continent Europe
Ethnicity Lithuania
Origin Antanas; Lithuanian poet (1835-1902).
Reference [59] - The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., Chicago, 1974, 1993.
Updated Oct 07, 2016 2:15 PM

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