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Mercury Name Proposal Summary February 18 2008 Proposal contains unreleased MESSENGER data DO NOT DISTRIBUTE
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Proposed Names A) Crater, Raditladi B) Crater, Eminescu C) Crater, Sveinsdóttir D) Rupes, Beagle E) Crater, Neruda F) Crater, Zhao* (first or last) G) Crater, Cunningham H) Crater, Atget I) Crater, Sander J) Fossae, Pantheon K) Crater, Apollodorus L) Crater, Munch M) Crater, Kertész MESSENGER Mercury Context Map
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Feature A: Raditladi Crater Leetile Disang Raditladi (Botswana, playwright and poet 1910-1971) 250 km diameter crater with unusual bright central peak (also color anomaly) 27.3°N, 241.1°W, 118.9°E NOTE: All close up images to same scale
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Feature B: Eminescu Crater Mihau Eminescu (Romania, poet 1850- 1889) 125 km diameter, bright central peak with unusual spectral properties 10.8°N, 245.8°W, 114.2°E
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Feature C: Sveinsdóttir Crater Júlíana Sveinsdóttir (Iceland, painter, 1889-1966) 120 x 220 elliptical crater 2.5°S, 259.9°W, 100.1°E
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Feature D: Beagle Rupes Beagle (England, Ship of discovery, carried Darwin on global expedition in the 1830s) Giant three segment lobate scarp 1.9°S, 258.8°W, 101.2°E
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Feature E: Neruda Crater Pablo Neruda (Chile, writer, 1904-1973) 110 km diameter, mottled albedo and smooth floor 52.4°S, 234.3°W, 125.7°E
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Feature F: Zhao* Crater Xiao Zhao (China, painter, active 1130-1162) 35 km diameter, fresh, bright ray Kuiperian crater 10.7°N, 236.2°W, 123.8°E *Check first name, last name
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Feature G: Cunningham Crater Imogen Cunningham (United States, photographer, 1883- 1976) 37 km diameter, fresh, bright ray Kuiperian crater 30.5°N, 202.8°W, 157.2°E
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Feature H: Atget Crater Eugène Atget (French, Photographer, 1857- 1927) 100 km diameter low albedo crater SE floor of Caloris 25.6°N, 193.4°W, 166.6°E
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Feature I: Crater August Sander (Germany, photographer, 1876- 1964) 58 km diameter crater floor of Caloris exhibiting unusual high albedo material on floor 42.7°N, 205.3°W, 154.7°E
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Feature J: Pantheon Fossae* Pantheon (Italy, classic domed building, circa 125 AD) ~200 km diameter radiating graben system with central impact crater (Apollodorus) 30.5°N, 191.1°W, 162.9° Arrow indicates central crater, note series of radiating graben *proposed feature category
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Feature K: Apollodorus Crater Apollodorus of Damascus (Syria or Greece, architect, sometimes credited as architect of Pantheon, 2nd century AD) 41 km diameter crater superposing radiating graben system 30.5°N, 197.1°W, 162.9°E Arrow indicates crater with proposed name Apollodorus
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Feature L: Munch Crater Edvard Munch (Norway, painter, 1863-1944) 220 km diameter crater, excavates anomalous material from depth (see low albedo streaks) 8.1°N, 190.6°W, 169.4°E High Sun makes crater hard to see
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Feature M: Kertész Crater André Kertész (Hungary, Photographer) 65 km diameter, Dark Crater SW Caloris - with odd high albedo blue floor materials 27.5°N, 214.1°W, 145.9°E
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