Iapetus Feature Names |
Iapetus Feature Names |
Aug 6 2008, 07:27 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Hell freezes over as Iapetus receives new feature names:
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/HotTopics/ind...e-Features.html -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Aug 6 2008, 08:00 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Working on a quick map with names. Won't have them all (getting late here in Arizona), but it will have the major craters).
BTW, these group of names include the smallest named crater (officially named anyway): Escremiz is only 60 meters across (somewhere in http://ciclops.org/view/3798/Closest_View_of_Iapetus ) -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Aug 6 2008, 08:11 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Aug 6 2008, 10:34 AM
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Thanks VP - nice to see Iapetus becoming Terra Cognita.
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Aug 6 2008, 04:42 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 114 Joined: 6-November 05 From: So. Maryland, USA Member No.: 544 |
So the equatorial ridge is now named, but it's broken up into segments and individual peaks. In order of longitude:
Name CLAT CLON DIAM Tortelosa Montes 0.0 64.7 294.0 ridge west of "Landslide Crater," (Malun) Toledo Montes 0.0 136.0 1,100.0 Main part of ridge in mid Cassini Gayne Mons 0.0 176.0 65.0 \ Valterne Mons 0.0 170.6 50.0 \ Haltile Mons 0.0 190.4 45.0 ----- Individual Voyager Mountains ? Sorence Mons 0.0 193.7 46.0 / Cordova Mons 0.0 206.2 85.0 / Carcassone Montes 0.0 216.7 740.0 Voyager Mountain group? Seville Mons 0.0 346.3 69.0 Mountain in far Eastern Cassini/Western Roncevaux |
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Aug 7 2008, 12:21 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 2-July 05 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 426 |
They also seem to have split Roncevaux Terra into two parts. Roncevaux Terra is now the northern half of the "white zone". The southern half is called Saragossa Terra or something like that.
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Aug 7 2008, 01:06 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10229 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I haven't seen this yet, but I expect the "smallest crater" will be the physical point from which longitudes are defined. We normally think of this as being at zero longitude, but it doesn't have to be.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 17 2008, 03:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1669 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Nice to see the annotated map. Interesting to see that Engelier and Gerin are now being given names
-------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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