Planetary Names

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

Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Bunin on Mercury

Bunin

Feature Name	Bunin
Clean Name	Bunin
Feature ID	15859
Target	Mercury
Feature Type	Crater, craters
Coordinate System	Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Control Network	MESSENGER Team
Northernmost Latitude	84.93 °
Southernmost Latitude	84.00 °
Easternmost Longitude	137.19 °
Westernmost Longitude	145.32 °
Diameter	37.00 km
Center Latitude	84.47 °
Center Longitude	141.76 °
WKT String	POLYGON ((215.8544494807068 84.09518745146988, 214.4146327491966 84.18521002718681, 213.3590052923527 84.4231432132633, 214.2577300045384 84.63011753410305, 215.7342069592344 84.83021232298439, 217.4422509458342 84.91300521405114, 219.5955523853938 84.90603847351258, 221.4456905361745 84.81251755197333, 222.9214261042455 84.5651731406063, 222.7600083683523 84.35993545252603, 221.7655019835877 84.1634268006988, 220.5792427036616 84.01259563478355, 217.8429547804228 83.98619194995683, 216.4627502788042 84.04472756265528, 215.8544494807068 84.09518745146988))
Continent	Europe
Ethnic/Cultural Group or Country	Russia
Quad	H-01 [pdf]
Reference	[544] - The Facts On File Companion to the World Novel: 1900 to Present. Ed by Michael Sollars and Arbolina Llamas Jennings. Facts On File, New York, NY. 2008. P. 113.
Approval Status	Adopted by IAU
Approval Date	Sep 11, 2019
Origin	Ivan, Russian author of prose and poetry; first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933. (1861 – 1941).
Last Updated	Sep 11, 2019 11:12 AM

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