New Names for Mercury features |
New Names for Mercury features |
Apr 10 2008, 05:39 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
This is just the first of what will presumably be many new sets of names for features on Mercury produced by MESSENGER's imaging:
QUOTE Twelve New Names and a New Theme for Fossae Approved for Use on Mercury The following new names have been approved by the IAU for use on Mercury. Craters: Apollodorus, Atget, Cunningham, Eminescu, Kertész, Neruda, Raditladi, Sander, Sveinsdóttir, Xiao Zhao Rupes: Beagle Rupes Fossae: Pantheon Fossae The newly approved theme for fossae on Mercury is "Significant works of architecture." Beagle Rupes is the big curvy rupes near the western terminator on the outbound images. Pantheon Fossae is the "spider." Apollodorus is the crater that sits on the spider. Anyone care to try your hand at mapping out the locations of the other craters? They all seem to be on the outbound images, no surprise there. Name Lat Lon Diameter Raditladi 27.28 240.93 257 Xiao Zhao 10.64 236.21 23 Atget 25.65 193.93 100 Sander 42.59 205.6 50 Apollodorus 30.58 197.01 41 Sveinsdóttir -2.58 259.96 220 Eminescu 10.79 245.87 125 Cunningham 30.48 203.07 37 Kertész 27.44 214.06 33 Neruda -52.47 234.55 110 --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Feb 26 2012, 04:18 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1669 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Here's a map with feature names, some of the new and some of the old ones, using a size threshold of 125km.
Full resolution: http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/features/c...zero_center.png Steve -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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