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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Buto Facula
Clean Name Buto Facula
Feature ID 935
Target Ganymede
Feature Type Facula, faculae

Location


UNKNOWN
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude 16.00 °
Southmost Latitude 10.80 °
Eastmost Longitude 200.70 °
Westmost Longitude 205.80 °
Diameter 245.00 km
Center Latitude 13.30 °
Center Longitude 203.20 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1985
Continent Africa
Ethnicity Egypt
Origin Swamp where Isis hid Osiris' body.
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 Feb 24, 2016 3:57 PM

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