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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Palinurus

Basic Info

Feature Name Palinurus
Clean Name Palinurus
Feature ID 4555
Target Dione
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


UNKNOWN
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude -2.73 °
Southmost Latitude -3.89 °
Eastmost Longitude 62.22 °
Westmost Longitude 63.48 °
Diameter 11.90 km
Center Latitude -3.30 °
Center Longitude 63.00 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1982
Continent Europe
Culture Roman
Origin Pilot of Aeneas' fleet.
Reference [44] - The Aeneid of Virgil, translated by Allen Mandelbaum: Bantam Books, Inc., New York, 1971.
Updated Jun 04, 2008 1:02 PM
Additional Information Defines 63 degrees longitude on Dione. This name was mistakenly applied to a larger crater (4.0S, 61.4W, 33 km), but was moved back to the longitude-defining crater (also a RAND control point crater) on Jan. 11, 2008.

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