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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Ashîma
Clean Name Ashima
Feature ID 426
Target Ganymede
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


UNKNOWN
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude -38.15 °
Southmost Latitude -39.94 °
Eastmost Longitude 121.81 °
Westmost Longitude 124.15 °
Diameter 84.00 km
Center Latitude -39.05 °
Center Longitude 122.98 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1985
Continent Asia
Ethnicity Semitic
Origin Semitic-Arab god of fate.
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 11:09 AM

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