Feature Name | Piccard Mons |
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Clean Name | Piccard Mons |
Feature ID | 15834 |
Target | Pluto |
Feature Type | Mons, montes |
Coordinate System | Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360 |
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Northmost Latitude | -29.20 ° |
Southmost Latitude | -41.32 ° |
Eastmost Longitude | 182.65 ° |
Westmost Longitude | 170.92 ° |
Diameter | 257.00 km |
Center Latitude | -35.26 ° |
Center Longitude | 176.79 ° |
WKT String | |
Quad | - |
Approval Status | Adopted by IAU |
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Approval Date | May 30, 2019 |
Continent | Europe |
Ethnicity | Switzerland |
Origin | Auguste; Swiss-Belgian inventor and physicist known for his pioneering balloon flights into the Earth’s upper atmosphere up to 17 km (1884–1962). |
Reference | [523] - Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Auguste-Piccard-Swiss-Belgian-physicist |
Updated | May 31, 2019 4:02 PM |
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