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Planetary Names: Eruptive center: Volund on Io

Volund

Feature Name	Volund
Clean Name	Volund
Feature ID	6433
Target	Io
Feature Type	Eruptive center
Coordinate System	Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Control Network
Northernmost Latitude	33.25 °
Southernmost Latitude	21.37 °
Easternmost Longitude	166.15 °
Westernmost Longitude	177.44 °
Diameter	430.52 km
Center Latitude	28.62 °
Center Longitude	172.50 °
WKT String	MULTIPOLYGON (((193.85 33.25000000003063, 182.56 33.25000000003063, 182.56 21.37000000004964, 193.85 21.37000000004964, 193.85 33.25000000003063)))
Northernmost Latitude	33.80 °
Southernmost Latitude	21.47 °
Easternmost Longitude	166.13 °
Westernmost Longitude	177.35 °
Diameter	427.26 km
Center Latitude	29.33 °
Center Longitude	171.75 °
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Continent	Europe
Ethnic/Cultural Group or Country	Germany
Quad	-
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.
Approval Status	Adopted by IAU
Approval Date	1979
Origin	Germanic supreme smith of the gods.
Last Updated	Apr 09, 2009 5:23 PM

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