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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Irkalla
Clean Name Irkalla
Feature ID 2719
Target Ganymede
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


UNKNOWN
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude -31.26 °
Southmost Latitude -33.77 °
Eastmost Longitude 113.32 °
Westmost Longitude 116.36 °
Diameter 117.00 km
Center Latitude -32.52 °
Center Longitude 114.84 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1985
Continent Asia
Ethnicity Sumerian
Origin Sumerian goddess of underworld, seen by Enkidu in a dream.
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 4:11 PM

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