Columbus Statue in Springfield, MA and Columbus Crater on Mars
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N 42° 05.484 W 072° 34.777
18T E 700169 N 4662759
Columbus Statue in Springfield, MA and Columbus Crater on Mars
Waymark Code: WMBY1J
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 07/03/2011
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Columbus Crater is a very large basin crater, 60 miles in diameter. It's located in the southern hemisphere of Mars. The crater dates back to Mars' Noachian epoch, a warm, wet period that lasted from about 4.6 to 3.5 billion years ago. It is considered the best place to study the chemistry of "fossil lakes" on Mars.
The statue of Cristoforo Columbo was placed in the South End of Springfield by the United Italian American Clubs and Societies of Greater Springfield.
Data From the IAU website:
Columbus
Feature Name Columbus
Clean Name Columbus
Feature ID 1274
Target Mars
Feature Type Crater, craters
Coordinate System Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360Planetographic, +West, 0 - 360
Control Network MDIM 2.0 MDIM 2.1
Northernmost Latitude -28.32 °
Southernmost Latitude -30.3 °
Easternmost Longitude 195 °
Westernmost Longitude 192.8 °
Diameter 119 km
Center Latitude -29.51 °
Center Longitude 193.9 °
Northernmost Latitude -28.34 °
Southernmost Latitude -30.24 °
Easternmost Longitude 195.11 °
Westernmost Longitude 192.93 °
Diameter 112.6 km
Center Latitude -29.29 °
Center Longitude 194.02 °
kml download Columbus.kml
Continent Europe
Ethnic/Cultural
Group or Country Italy
Quad mc16 [pdf]
Reference [68] - World Who's Who in Science, edited by Allen G. Debus; Western Publishing Company, Hannibal, Mo., 1968; New York, 1973.
Approval Status Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1976
Origin Christopher; Italian explorer (1451-1506).
Last Updated Nov 17, 2010 9:58:55 AM
Website of the Extraterrestrial Location: [Web Link]
Website of location on Earth: [Web Link]
Celestial Body: Mars
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