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Housing Units (2000): 2334
Land area (2000): 1.927604 sq. miles (4.992471 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.033299 sq. miles (0.086243 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.960903 sq. miles (5.078714 sq. km)
FIPS code: 72676
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.816982 N, 87.786755 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60402
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Stickney
Housing Units (2000): 169
Land area (2000): 0.266322 sq. miles (0.689770 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.266322 sq. miles (0.689770 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61700
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 43.588521 N, 98.437867 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57375
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Stickney
Wikipedia
Stickney is the largest crater on Phobos, which is a satellite of Mars. It is in diameter, taking up a substantial proportion of the moon's surface.
The crater is named after Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, wife of Phobos's discoverer, Asaph Hall. In 1878 Hall wrote that he "might have abandoned the search [for Martian satellites] had it not been for the encouragement of [his] wife." The crater was named in 1973, based on Mariner 9 images, by an IAU nomenclature committee chaired by Carl Sagan. Stickney has a smaller crater within it, about in diameter, resulting from a later impact. In 2006 it was given the name Limtoc, after a character in Gulliver's Travels.
Grooves and crater chains appear to radiate from Stickney. These have led to theories about the impact that formed Stickney nearly destroying the moon. However, evidence from the Mars Express orbiter indicate that they are unrelated to Stickney and may have been formed by material ejected from impacts on Mars. More recent modelling supports the theory that the grooves are signs of deformation caused by tidal forces. The crater has a noticeable lineated texture on its interior walls, caused by landslides from materials falling into the crater.
It is possible that Stickney is large enough to be seen with the naked eye from the surface of Mars. It is located at the middle of the western edge of the Mars-facing side of Phobos.
Stickney may refer to: