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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Travers
Clean Name Travers
Feature ID 15773
Target Mercury
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


MESSENGER Team
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude -26.10 °
Southmost Latitude -30.00 °
Eastmost Longitude 327.10 °
Westmost Longitude 331.10 °
Diameter 164.00 km
Center Latitude -28.00 °
Center Longitude 329.10 °
Quad H-14 [pdf]

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Oct 19, 2018
Continent Europe
Ethnicity Great Britain
Origin Pamela Lyndon (born Helen Lyndon Goff); Australian-born British writer best known for Mary Poppins series of children’s books (1899-1996).
Reference [484] - Mary Poppins She Wrote: The Life of P.L. Travers, by Valerie Lawson: Aurum, 2005.
Updated Oct 19, 2018 3:01 PM

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