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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Fausta
Clean Name Fausta
Feature ID 15206
Target Vesta
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


IAU Coordinate System for (4) Vesta
Coordinate System Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude -25.09 °
Southmost Latitude -25.79 °
Eastmost Longitude 100.15 °
Westmost Longitude 99.37 °
Diameter 3.14 km
Center Latitude -25.44 °
Center Longitude 99.76 °
Quad -

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Feb 05, 2014
Continent Europe
Ethnicity Roman
Origin Flavia Maxima; Roman Empress, wife of Constantine I, executed by him (d. 326).
Reference [320] - On the Death of Empress Fausta, by David Woods: Greece and Rome, Volume XLV, No. 1, April, 1998.
Updated Feb 05, 2014 8:12 AM

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