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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Ut Rupes
Clean Name Ut Rupes
Feature ID 6252
Target Venus
Feature Type Rupes, rupēs

Location


UNKNOWN
Coordinate System Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude 56.90 °
Southmost Latitude 53.80 °
Eastmost Longitude 326.50 °
Westmost Longitude 316.60 °
Diameter 676.00 km
Center Latitude 55.30 °
Center Longitude 321.90 °
Quad v07 [pdf]

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1982
Continent Asia
Ethnicity Turkmenistan
Origin Siberian; Turco-Tatar goddess of the hearth fire.
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 Dec 30, 2008 2:26 PM

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