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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
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Dione: Dido

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Direction of Increasing Longitude: west
Longitude Range: 0.0° to 360.0°

Feature Name Dido Search for maps that cover Dido in the Planetary Map Index
Latitude -24°
Longitude 18.8°
Starting Latitude -30°
Starting Longitude 12.6°
Ending Latitude -17.7°
Ending Longitude 25.7°
Diameter 122 KM
Continent Europe
Ethnicity Roman
Map
Quadrangle PRELIM
Approval Status 5: Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1982
Reference The Aeneid of Virgil, translated by Allen Mandelbaum; Bantam Books, Inc., New York, 1971.
Origin Tyrian princess who founded Carthage.

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