List of craters on Mercury
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This is a list of named craters on Mercury. All Mercurian craters are named after famous writers and artists.
See also: List of geological features on Mercury
Crater Latitude Longitude Diameter (km) Named after A Abu Nuwas 17.5 21 115 Abu Nuwas Africanus Horton -50.5 42 120 Africanus Horton Ahmad Baba 58.5 127 115 Ahmad Baba al Massufi Alencar -63.5 104 85 José de Alencar Al-Hamadhani 39 89.5 170 Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani Al-Jahiz 1.5 22 95 Al-Jahiz Amru Al-Qays 13 176 50 Imru Al-Qays Ibn Hujr Andal -47 38.5 90 Aristoxenes 82 11 65 Aristoxenus Asvaghosa 11 21 80 Asvaghosa B Bach -69 103 225 Johann Sebastian Bach Balagtas -22 14 100 Francisco Balagtas Balzac 11 145 65 Honoré de Balzac Bartok -29 135 80 Béla Bartók Basho -32 170.5 70 Matsuo Basho Beethoven -20 124 625 Ludwig van Beethoven Bello -18.5 120.5 150 Andrés Bello Bernini -79.5 136 145 Gianlorenzo Bernini Boccaccio -80.5 30 135 Giovanni Boccaccio Boethius -0.5 74 130 Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Botticelli 64 110 120 Sandro Botticelli Brahms 58.5 177 75 Johannes Brahms Bramante 46 62 130 Donato Bramante Bronte 39 126.5 60 The Brontë family Brunelleschi -8.5 22.5 140 Filippo Brunelleschi Byron -8 33 100 Lord Byron C Callicrates -65 32 65 Callicrates Camoes -70.5 70 70 Luis de Camões Carducci -36 90 75 Giosuè Carducci Cervantes -75 122 200 Miguel de Cervantes Chaikovskij 8 50.5 160 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Chao Meng-Fu -37.5 132 150 Zhao Mengfu Chekov -33.5 61.5 130 Anton Chekhov Chiang K'ui 14.5 103 40 Jiang Kui Chong Ch'ol 47 116 120 Chong Ch'ol Chopin -64.5 124 100 Frédéric Chopin Chu Ta 3.5 106 100 Zhu Da Coleridge -54.5 66.5 110 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copley -37.5 35.5 30 John Singleton Copley Couperin 30 153 75 The Couperin family D Dario -26 10 160 Rubén Darío Degas 37.5 127 45 Edgar Degas Delacroix -44.5 129.5 135 Eugène Delacroix Derzhavin 44.5 35.5 145 Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin Desprez 81 92 40 Josquin Desprez Dickens -73 153 72 Charles Dickens Donne 3 14 60 John Donne Dostoevskij -44.5 177 390 Fyodor Dostoyevsky Dowland -53 180 80 John Dowland Durer 22 119.5 190 Albrecht Dürer Dvorak -9.5 12.5 30 Antonín Dvořák E Eitoku -21.5 157.5 105 Kano Eitoku Equiano -39 31 80 Olaudah Equiano G Gauguin 66.5 97 75 Paul Gauguin Ghiberti -48 80 100 Lorenzo Ghiberti Gluck 37.5 18.5 85 Christoph Willibald Gluck Goya -6.5 152.5 135 Francisco Goya Guido d'Arezzo -38 19 50 Guido of Arezzo H Handel 4 34 150 George Frideric Handel Harunobu 15.5 141 100 Suzuki Harunobu Hawthorne -51 116 100 Nathaniel Hawthorne Haydn -26 5 715 230 Joseph Haydn Heine 33 124.5 65 Heinrich Heine Hesiod -58 35.5 90 Hesiod Hiroshige -13 27 140 Ando Hiroshige Hitomaro -16 16 105 Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Holbein 35.5 29 85 Hans Holbein the Younger Holberg -66.5 61 66 Ludvig Holberg Homer -1 36.5 320 Homer Horace -68.5 52 48 Horace Hugo 39 47.5 190 Victor Hugo Hun Kal -0.5 20 1.5 '20' in the language of the Maya, and serving as a meridian reference point I Ibsen -24 36 160 Henrik Ibsen lctinus -79 165 110 Ictinus Imhotep -17.5 37.5 160 Imhotep Ivez -32.5 112 20 Charles Ives J Jokai 72.5 136 85 Mór Jókai Judah Ha-Levi 11.5 108 85 Judah Ha-Levi K Kalidasa -17.5 180 110 Kalidas Keats -66.5 154 110 John Keats Kenko -21 16.5 90 Yashida Kenko Khansa -56.5 52 100 Al-Khansa Kuan Han-ch'ing 29 53 155 Guan Hanqing Kuiper -11 31.5 60 Gerard Kuiper Kurosawa -52 23 180 L Leopardi -73 180 69 Giacomo Leopardi Lermontov 15.5 48.5 160 Mikhail Lermontov Liang K'ai -39.5 183.5 105 Liang Kai Li Ch'ing-Chao -77 73 60 Li Qingzhao Li Po 17.5 35 120 Li Bai Lu Hzon 0.5 23.5 95 Lu Xun Lysippus 1.5 133 150 Lysippos M Ma Chih-Yuan -59 77 170 Ma Zhiyuan Machaut -1.5 83 105 Guillaume de Machaut Mahler -19 19 100 Gustav Mahler Mansart 73.5 120 75 Jules Hardouin Mansart Mansur 47.5 163 75 Ustad Mansur March 31.5 176 55 Ausias March Mark Twain -10.5 138.5 140 Mark Twain Marti -75.5 164 63 José Martí Martial 69 178 45 Martial Matisse -23.5 90 210 Henri Matisse Melville 22 9.5 145 Herman Melville Mena 0.5 125 20 Juan de Mena Mendes Pinto -61 19 170 Fernão Mendes Pinto Michelangelo -44.5 110 200 Michelangelo Mickiewicz 23.5 102.5 115 Adam Mickiewicz Milton -25.5 175 175 John Milton Mistral 5 54 100 Gabriela Mistral Mofolo -37 29 90 Thomas Mofolo Molière 16 17.5 140 Molière Monet 44 9.5 250 Claude Monet Monteverdi 64 77 130 Claudio Monteverdi Mozart 8 190.5 225 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Murasaki -12 31 125 Murasaki Shikibu Mussorgskij 33 96.5 115 Modest Mussorgsky Myron 71 79.5 30 Myron N Nampeyo -39.5 50.5 40 Nampeyo Nervo 43 179 50 Amado Nervo Neumann -36.5 35 100 Johann Balthasar Neumann Nizami 71.5 165 70 Elyas Yusof Nezami Ganjavi O Ovid -69.5 23 40 Ovid P Petrarch -30 26.5 160 Petrarch Phidias 9 150 155 Phidias Philoxenus -8 112 95 Philoxenus Pigalle -37 10.5 130 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle Po Chu-I -6.5 165.5 60 Bo Juyi Po Ya -45.5 21 90 Yu Boya Polygnotus 0 68.5 130 Polygnotus Praxiteles 27 60 175 Praxiteles Proust 20 47 140 Marcel Proust Puccini -64.5 46 110 Giacomo Puccini Purcell 81 148 80 Henry Purcell Pushkin -65 24 200 Aleksandr Pushkin R Rabelais -59.5 62.5 130 François Rabelais Rajniz 5 96.5 85 Rainis Rameau -54 38 50 Jean Philippe Rameau Raphael -19.5 76.5 350 Raffaello Santi Renoir -18 52 220 Pierre-Auguste Renoir Repin -19 63 95 Ilya Yefimovich Repin Riemenschneider -52.5 100.5 120 Tilman Riemenschneider Rilke -44.5 13.5 70 Rainer Maria Rilke Rodin 22 18.5 240 Auguste Rodin Rubens 59.5 73.5 180 Peter Paul Rubens Rublev -14.5 157.5 125 Andrei Rublev Rudaki -3.5 51.5 120 Rudaki S Sadi -77.5 56 60 Sadi Saikaku 73 177 80 Ihara Saikaku Sarmiento -28.5 188.5 115 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Sayat-Nova -27.5 122.5 125 Sayat-Nova Scarlatti 40.5 99.5 135 Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti Schoenberg -15.5 136 30 Arnold Schoenberg Schubert -42 54.5 160 Franz Schubert Scopaz -81 173 95 Scopas Sei -63.5 88.5 130 Sei Shonagon Shakespeare 48.5 151 350 William Shakespeare Shelley -47.5 128.5 145 Percy Bysshe Shelley Shevchenko -53 47 130 Taras Shevchenko Sholem Aleichem 51 56.5 190 Sholom Aleichem Sinan 16 30 140 Mimar Sinan Snorri -5.5 83.5 30 Snorri Sturluson Sophocles -6.5 146.5 145 Sophocles Sor Juana 49 24 80 Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz Sotatsu 45 19.5 130 Tawaraya Sōtatsu Spitteler -68 62 66 Carl Spitteler Stravinsky 50.5 73 170 Igor Stravinsky Strindberg 54 136 165 August Strindberg Sullivan -16 87 135 Louis Sullivan Sur Das -46.5 94 100 Surdas Surikov -37 125 105 Vasily Surikov T Takayoshi -37 164 105 Takayoshi Tansen 4.5 72 25 Tansen Thakur -2.5 64 115 Rabindranath Tagore Theophanes -4 143 50 Theophanes Tintoretto -47.5 24 60 Tintoretto Titian -3 42.5 115 Titian Tolstoj -15 165 400 Leo Tolstoy Ts'ai Wen-chi 23.5 22.5 120 Cai Wenji Ts'ao Chan -13 142 110 Cao Zhan Tsurayuki -62 22.5 80 Tsurayuki Kino Tung Yuan 73.5 55 60 Dong Yuan Turgenev 66 135 110 Ivan Turgenev Tyagaraja 4 149 100 Tyagaraja U Unkei -31 63.5 110 Unkei Ustad Isa -31.5 166 105 Ustad Isa V Valmiki -23.5 141.5 220 Valmiki Van Dijck 76.5 165 100 Anthony van Dyck Van Eyck 43.5 159 235 Jan van Eyck Van Gogh -76 135 95 Vincent van Gogh Velazquez 37 54 120 Diego Velázquez Verdi 64.5 169 150 Giuseppe Verdi Vincente -56.5 143 85 Gil Vicente Vivaldi 14.5 86 210 Antonio Vivaldi Vyasa 43.5 80 275 Vyasa W Wagner -67.5 114 135 Richard Wagner Wang Meng 9.5 104 170 Wang Meng Wergeland -37 56.5 35 Henrik Wergeland Wren 24.5 36 215 Walt Whitman Y Yakovlev -40.5 163.5 100 Christopher Wren Yeats 9.5 35 90 William Butler Yeats Yun Son-Do -72.5 109 61 Yun Sondo Z Zeami -2.5 148 125 Zeami Motokiyo Zola 50.5 178 60 Emile Zola References
- Batson R.M., Russell J.F. (1994), Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, United States Geological Survey Bulletin 2129 [link]
- Davies M.E., Dwornik S.E., Gault D.E., Strom R.G. (1978), Atlas of Mercury, NASA Scientific and Technical Information Office [link]
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