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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Jiménez
Clean Name Jimenez
Feature ID 15857
Target Mercury
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


MESSENGER Team
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude 82.17 °
Southmost Latitude 81.48 °
Eastmost Longitude 149.96 °
Westmost Longitude 154.66 °
Diameter 27.00 km
Center Latitude 81.83 °
Center Longitude 152.31 °
Quad H-01 [pdf]

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Sep 11, 2019
Continent Europe
Ethnicity Spain
Origin Juan Ramón, Spanish poet and author (1881 – 1958).
Reference [542] - “Juan Ramón Jiménez – Biographical”. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1956/jimenez/biographical/
Updated Sep 11, 2019 10:50 AM

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