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    • Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

    Metadata Updated: August 23, 2025

    Planetary nomenclature, like terrestrial nomenclature, is used to uniquely identify a feature on the surface of a planet or satellite so that the feature can be easily located, described, and discussed. This gazetteer contains detailed information about all names of topographic and albedo features on planets and satellites (and some planetary ring and ring-gap systems) that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named and approved from its founding in 1919 through the present time.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025
    Data Update Frequency irregular

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025
    Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier NASA-0000038__43
    Data First Published 2018-06-25
    Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Dictionary http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Page/Website
    Harvest Object Id 88f3450e-5c16-40d6-b51c-067e7a42b0a2
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/gazetteer-of-planetary-nomenclature
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash e50d721e583ea13e47f0bd12703aee838988ac5ff3b8975841132dadfd283fc6
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 1977-01-01/2014-01-01

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