Al-Bakbuk (crater)
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 Al-Bakbuk (center) as seen by the Cassini spacecraft on March 9, 2005 |
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| Location | 6.6°N, 188.5°W |
| Diameter | 9.0 km |
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| Discoverer | Cassini |
| Naming | Al-Bakbuk; The Barber's first brother |
Al-Bakbuk is an impact crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Al-Bakbuk was first observed in Cassini images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 6.6° North Latitude, 188.5° West Longitude, and is 9 kilometers across. Since the crater's formation, numerous north-south trending fractures cut across the crater, forming canyons several hundred meters deep along the crater's rim.
Al-Bakbuk is named after one of the barber's six brothers in the "The Hunchback's Tale" in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.
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