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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Angelou
Clean Name Angelou
Feature ID 15854
Target Mercury
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


MESSENGER Team
Coordinate System Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Northmost Latitude 80.53 °
Southmost Latitude 80.11 °
Eastmost Longitude 65.45 °
Westmost Longitude 67.97 °
Diameter 18.00 km
Center Latitude 80.32 °
Center Longitude 66.71 °
Quad H-01 [pdf]

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date Sep 11, 2019
Continent North America
Ethnicity United States
Origin Maya, American author and poet (1928 – 2014).
Reference [539] - Maya Angelou: A Biography of an Award-Winning Poet and Civil Rights Activist, by Donna Brown Agins: Enslow Publishers, Inc., Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, 2013.
Updated Sep 11, 2019 10:26 AM

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