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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Basic Info

Feature Name Ibn Firnas
Clean Name Ibn Firnas
Feature ID 2634
Target Moon
Feature Type Crater, craters

Location


Coordinate System Planetographic, +East, -180 - 180
Northmost Latitude 8.29 °
Southmost Latitude 5.38 °
Eastmost Longitude 123.77 °
Westmost Longitude 120.84 °
Diameter 88.29 km
Center Latitude 6.83 °
Center Longitude 122.30 °
Northmost Latitude 8.35 °
Southmost Latitude 5.32 °
Eastmost Longitude 124.10 °
Westmost Longitude 121.05 °
Diameter 91.72 km
Center Latitude 6.84 °
Center Longitude 122.57 °
Northmost Latitude 6.80 °
Southmost Latitude 6.80 °
Eastmost Longitude 122.30 °
Westmost Longitude 122.30 °
Diameter 89.00 km
Center Latitude 6.80 °
Center Longitude 122.30 °
Quad LAC-65 [pdf]

Status and Origin

Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1976
Continent Europe
Ethnicity Spain
Origin Abbas Ibn Firnas; Spanish-Arab humanitarian, technologist (unkn- A.D. 887).
Reference [89] - Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Charles Coulston Gillispie, editor in chief, vol. 9: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1981.
Updated Oct 18, 2010 12:00 PM
Satellite Feature(s) Ibn Firnas E
Ibn Firnas L
Ibn Firnas Y

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