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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Gushkin
Clean Name Gushkin
Feature ID 15497
Target Ganymede
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


UNKNOWN
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude 21.20 °
Southmost Latitude 20.30 °
Eastmost Longitude 45.53 °
Westmost Longitude 46.42 °
Diameter 40.50 km
Center Latitude 20.75 °
Center Longitude 45.98 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Jul 09, 2016
Continent Asia
Ethnicity Sumerian
Origin Gushkin-Banda, Sumerian patron god of goldsmiths.
Reference [398] - Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others, by Stephanie Dalley: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Updated Jul 11, 2016 1:01 PM

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