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■ Measured / ComputedHercules
Crater (68.3 km) — Latin spelling for Greek mythological hero Heracles.
- Coordinates
- 46.8219, 39.2135 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 68.315056
- Etymology
- Latin spelling for Greek mythological hero Heracles.
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1935
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/2467
- Clean name
- Hercules
- Ethnicity
- Greek
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-27
Primary source