Planetary Names

Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)

Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Pirx on Charon

Pirx

Feature Name	Pirx
Clean Name	Pirx
Feature ID	15740
Target	Charon
Feature Type	Crater, craters
Coordinate System	Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360
Control Network	UNKNOWN
Northernmost Latitude	59.40 °
Southernmost Latitude	50.90 °
Easternmost Longitude	263.10 °
Westernmost Longitude	249.90 °
Diameter	90.00 km
Center Latitude	55.20 °
Center Longitude	256.30 °
WKT String	MULTIPOLYGON (((257.0197578414168 59.14367224295494, 253.7821661426307 59.12848889459831, 251.0933718548013 58.1254204424724, 249.8144164646084 55.18642521705287, 250.9165891153393 52.73803783002587, 253.4131960546587 51.18078265537432, 256.7252503347571 50.67250793289794, 259.5552489489865 51.38070800734495, 261.8374239908219 52.79437250400142, 262.9490621517978 54.17765796880789, 261.8121563147881 56.66041183912458, 259.4098650052913 58.24118061850051, 257.0197578414168 59.14367224295494)))
Continent	Europe
Ethnic/Cultural Group or Country	Poland
Quad	-
Reference	[471] - Tales of Pirx the Pilot, by Stanislaw Lem: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990.
Approval Status	Adopted by IAU
Approval Date	Apr 11, 2018
Origin	Spaceship pilot, the main character in a series of fictional stories by the Polish author Stanislaw Lem (1921–2006). He travelled between the Earth, Moon and Mars.
Last Updated	Apr 11, 2018 3:20 PM

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