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■ Measured / ComputedRupes Altai
Rupes (545.2 km) — Named from terrestrial Altai Mountains.
- Coordinates
- -24.3176, 23.124 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Rupes
- Feature type
- Rupes, rupēs
- Feature type code
- RU
- Diameter km
- 545.19269
- Etymology
- Named from terrestrial Altai Mountains.
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1961
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/5224
- Clean name
- Rupes Altai
- Ethnicity
- Mongolia
- Continent
- Asia
- Quad
- LAC-96
Primary source