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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Pekko

Basic Info

Feature Name Pekko
Clean Name Pekko
Feature ID 4636
Target Callisto
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


UNKNOWN
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude 18.90 °
Southmost Latitude 17.50 °
Eastmost Longitude 4.70 °
Westmost Longitude 6.20 °
Diameter 62.00 km
Center Latitude 18.30 °
Center Longitude 5.40 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1979
Continent Europe
Ethnicity Finland
Origin Finno-Ugric god of barley.
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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