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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Zapiola Rupes
Clean Name Zapiola Rupes
Feature ID 16110
Target Mercury
Feature Type Rupes, rupēs

Location


MESSENGER Team
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude 73.01 °
Southmost Latitude 71.12 °
Eastmost Longitude 43.35 °
Westmost Longitude 45.41 °
Diameter 89.00 km
Center Latitude 72.36 °
Center Longitude 44.02 °
Quad H-01 [pdf]

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Dec 02, 2022
Continent South and Central America
Ethnicity Argentina
Origin Argentinian; ship involved in oceanographic surveys in Southwestern Atlantic; performed 10 oceanographic cruises (1962-1976).
Reference [657] - Plankton Ecology of the Southwestern Atlantic: From the Subtropical to the Subantarctic Realm, ed. by Mónica S. Hoffmeyer et al. Springer, 2018. (P. 9).
Updated Dec 09, 2022 7:32 PM

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