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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Sanai
Clean Name Sanai
Feature ID 15246
Target Mercury
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


MESSENGER Team
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude -7.69 °
Southmost Latitude -18.92 °
Eastmost Longitude 1.08 °
Westmost Longitude 12.92 °
Diameter 490.00 km
Center Latitude -13.37 °
Center Longitude 6.99 °
Quad H-06 [pdf]

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Jun 23, 2014
Continent Asia
Ethnicity Persian
Origin Sanai of Ghazna, Abul Majd bin Majdud bin Adam; Persian poet (d. c. 1131).
Reference [335] - Ethics in Persian Poetry, by Ghulam Abbas Dalal: Abhinav Publications, New Delhi, 1995.
Updated Oct 13, 2016 10:02 AM

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