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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Cora
Clean Name Cora
Feature ID 15927
Target Charon
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


Charon
Coordinate System Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude 17.54 °
Southmost Latitude 16.70 °
Eastmost Longitude 352.15 °
Westmost Longitude 351.27 °
Diameter 9.00 km
Center Latitude 17.09 °
Center Longitude 351.72 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Aug 05, 2020
Continent North America
Culture United States
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.
Reference [582] - The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead: Anchor Books, New York, 2016.
Updated Aug 10, 2020 8:55 PM

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