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According to The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is pronounced [mih-RAN-duh]. This is confirmed with the Shakespeare Recording Society CD. kwami

[edit] Verona Rupes

Article on Verona Rupes states the height of Verona Rupes as 12miles, but this article has it at 10km. One of them probably needs fixing. BevanFindlay 11:20, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I've seen that 20 km claim somewhere, but most values are more conservative. Is there more reliable source than Guinness?--JyriL ^talk 10:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

A ref search gave me APOD 2005-03-15, and because it linked to Guinness I cited them.

I just did another search and found

• 10km: Meech, Karen J.. Astrobiology 740: ice observing techniques. 2006-01-27,
• 20km: U.S. Geological Survey. 2003-05-08, and
• 20km: Birmingham, C.; N. Ricchiazzi; B. Smuda. PHYS 0133: Astronomy. 2005 (which uses this article as on 2005-10-11 as the only Verona ref).

So, say 10-20km and ref Meech 2006 also, or just 10? -- Jeandré, 2006-08-06t08:35z

Is there any value for Verona Rupes mentioned in scientific journals, like Icarus? ADS, Google Scholar, and Science Direct yield no articles mentioning the height.--JyriL ^talk 16:49, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

The original caption for the scarp image in the article says The fault may be 5 km (3 mi) high, or higher than the walls of the Grand Canyon on Earth. [1].--JyriL ^talk 16:54, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Something's wrong in the orbital data: we have:

  Semi-major axis  129,390 km
  Mean radius   129,872 km

- but the mean ought to be less than the semi-major value. I don't have the information to correct it. Chris C 16:48, 14 December 2006 (UTC)