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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Yara
Clean Name Yara
Feature ID 16355
Target Triton
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


Coordinate System Planetographic, +East, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude -5.92 °
Southmost Latitude -6.33 °
Eastmost Longitude 54.94 °
Westmost Longitude 54.51 °
Diameter 11.00 km
Center Latitude -6.14 °
Center Longitude 54.74 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Dec 17, 2024
Continent South and Central America
Ethnicity Tupi
Origin Tupi/Guarani (Brazil) beautiful mermaid in Amazon River.
Reference [832] - The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth, edited by Debbie Felton. Oxford University Press. 2024. (P. 506)
Updated Dec 17, 2024 5:34 PM
Additional Information Feature coordinates measured on the 2024 USGS/Bland et al. control network.

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