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Gargantuan Basin

(gar-gan -choo-ăn) See Procellarum, Oceanus.

Collins Dictionary of Astronomy © Market House Books Ltd, 2006

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Procellarum, Oceanus

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This putative basin has been mapped with several boundaries and has been known by different names: the Procellarum basin and the Gargantuan basin.

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