New Names for Mercury features Options

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This is just the first of what will presumably be many new sets of names for features on Mercury produced by MESSENGER's imaging:

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