Planetary Names

Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

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

Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Cora on Charon

Cora

Feature Name	Cora
Clean Name	Cora
Feature ID	15927
Target	Charon
Feature Type	Crater, craters
Coordinate System	Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360
Control Network	Charon
Northernmost Latitude	17.54 °
Southernmost Latitude	16.70 °
Easternmost Longitude	352.15 °
Westernmost Longitude	351.27 °
Diameter	9.00 km
Center Latitude	17.09 °
Center Longitude	351.72 °
kml download	Cora.kml
Continent	North America
Ethnic/Cultural Group or Country	United States
Quad	-
Reference	[582] - The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead: Anchor Books, New York, 2016.
Approval Status	Adopted by IAU
Approval Date	Aug 05, 2020
Origin	Protagonist in the fiction novel The Underground Railroad, by US author Colson Whitehead (2016). She was a slave who undertook a long journey to freedom in the North through the network of routes and safe houses for fugitive southern slaves, depicted as an actual railroad.
Last Updated	Aug 10, 2020 8:55 PM