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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Atla Regio
Clean Name Atla Regio
Feature ID 456
Target Venus
Feature Type Regio, regiones

Location


UNKNOWN
Coordinate System Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude 20.40 °
Southmost Latitude -3.30 °
Eastmost Longitude 206.20 °
Westmost Longitude 187.30 °
Diameter 3200.00 km
Center Latitude 9.20 °
Center Longitude 200.10 °
Quad v26 [pdf]

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1982
Continent Europe
Ethnicity Norway
Origin Norse giantess, mother of Heimdall.
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 Oct 01, 2006 3:30 PM

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