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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Gad

Basic Info

Feature Name Gad
Clean Name Gad
Feature ID 2051
Target Ganymede
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


UNKNOWN
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude -12.83 °
Southmost Latitude -14.30 °
Eastmost Longitude 136.75 °
Westmost Longitude 138.37 °
Diameter 72.00 km
Center Latitude -13.56 °
Center Longitude 137.56 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1985
Continent Asia
Culture Semitic
Origin Semitic god of fate or good fortune.
Reference [27] - The Mythology of All Races (13 vols.), edited by John Arnott MacCulloch and George Foot Moore: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., New York, 1964.
Updated Nov 13, 2015 1:28 PM

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