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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
Feature Information

Moon: Dionysius

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Direction of Increasing Longitude: east
Longitude Range: -180.0° to 180.0°

Feature Name Dionysius Search for maps that cover Dionysius in the Planetary Map Index
Latitude 2.8°
Longitude 17.3°
Diameter 18 KM
Continent Europe
Ethnicity Greek
Map
Quadrangle LAC 60
Approval Status 5: Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1935
Reference Named Lunar Formations, by Mary A. Blagg and K. Müller; Percy Lund, Humphries and Co. Ltd., London, 1935.
Origin St. Dionysius the Areopagite; Greek astronomer (A.D. 9-120).

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