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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Tabei Montes
Clean Name Tabei Montes
Feature ID 15866
Target Pluto
Feature Type Mons, montes

Location


Pluto
Coordinate System Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude -9.61 °
Southmost Latitude -13.84 °
Eastmost Longitude 166.54 °
Westmost Longitude 162.12 °
Diameter 105.00 km
Center Latitude -11.73 °
Center Longitude 164.33 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Nov 19, 2019
Continent Asia
Ethnicity Japan
Origin Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer and the first woman to climb both Mount Everest and the Seven Summits (1939–2016).
Reference [548] - Honouring High Places: The Mountain Life of Junko Tabei, by Junko Tabei and Helen Y. Rolfe, translated from the Japanese by Yumiko Hiraki and Rieko Holtved: Rocky Mountain Books, Canada, 2017.
Updated Nov 19, 2019 2:46 PM

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