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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Agonium Rupes
Clean Name Agonium Rupes
Feature ID 14916
Target Vesta
Feature Type Rupes, rupēs

Location


IAU Coordinate System for (4) Vesta
Coordinate System Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude -43.45 °
Southmost Latitude -63.75 °
Eastmost Longitude 326.36 °
Westmost Longitude 306.94 °
Diameter 111.28 km
Center Latitude -53.47 °
Center Longitude 316.08 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Dec 27, 2011
Continent Europe
Ethnicity Roman
Origin Roman festival celebrated several times a year; on this day the Rex sacrorum offered a ram in the Regia.
Reference [261] - Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic, by W. Warde Fowler: MacMillan and Co., London, 1908.
Updated Mar 18, 2014 7:48 AM

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