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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Busiris Facula
Clean Name Busiris Facula
Feature ID 930
Target Ganymede
Feature Type Facula, faculae

Location


UNKNOWN
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude 19.60 °
Southmost Latitude 11.60 °
Eastmost Longitude 211.32 °
Westmost Longitude 219.60 °
Diameter 369.00 km
Center Latitude 16.00 °
Center Longitude 215.30 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1985
Continent Africa
Ethnicity Egypt
Origin Town in lower Egypt where Osiris was first installed as local god.
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 Mar 01, 2016 3:08 PM

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