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elakdawalla
post Apr 10 2008, 05:39 PM
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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:

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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

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MarcF
post May 6 2013, 01:35 PM
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Some changes in Mercury nomenclature and new names. Previous Valles became Catenae and valleys (formed due to mechanical and thermal erosion of Mercury's surface by hot, low-viscosity, quickly-flowing lavas) have been named according to the theme of "abandoned cities (and towns and settlements) of antiquity" .
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/scienc...p;image_id=1161
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post May 8 2013, 11:59 AM
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QUOTE (MarcF @ May 6 2013, 02:35 PM) *
Some changes in Mercury nomenclature and new names. ...]
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Unfortuneatly clicking on the "next" for the third image results in an error.
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- elakdawalla   New Names for Mercury features   Apr 10 2008, 05:39 PM
- - stevesliva   I was wondering what Jason was talking about with ...   Apr 10 2008, 09:46 PM
- - scalbers   On a somewhat related note, I recently posted some...   Apr 17 2008, 05:57 PM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Apr 10 2008, 10:39 A...   Apr 17 2008, 07:35 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Apr 17 2008, 12:35 P...   Apr 21 2008, 05:18 PM
- - Phil Stooke   ... and a nice new image on the Messenger site: h...   Apr 17 2008, 09:13 PM
- - nprev   Wow, I'll say!!! The central peak...   Apr 18 2008, 01:08 AM
|- - scalbers   QUOTE (nprev @ Apr 18 2008, 02:08 AM) Wow...   Apr 21 2008, 05:32 PM
|- - jasedm   QUOTE (nprev @ Apr 18 2008, 02:08 AM) Wow...   Apr 21 2008, 07:45 PM
- - Shaka   I was wondering when somebody would mention those...   Apr 21 2008, 09:41 PM
|- - jasedm   QUOTE (Shaka @ Apr 21 2008, 10:41 PM) I w...   Apr 22 2008, 08:58 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Secondary cratering has been understood very well ...   Apr 21 2008, 11:30 PM
- - Shaka   Thanks for the pointer. I'll try to find it. ...   Apr 22 2008, 09:06 PM
- - nprev   The crater chains are odd and cool, but I'm st...   Apr 23 2008, 04:52 AM
|- - ugordan   Here are a couple of false color and natural-ish w...   May 4 2008, 08:23 PM
- - edstrick   I've uploaded a segment extracted from my enha...   May 4 2008, 10:30 PM
- - scalbers   Here's a map with feature names, some of the n...   Feb 26 2012, 04:18 PM
- - CAP-Team   Steve, besides adding feature names to your maps, ...   Feb 28 2012, 10:21 PM
- - Phil Stooke   http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/scienc...mp;im...   Feb 29 2012, 01:59 PM
- - scalbers   CAP-Team, for Mercury a simple idea might be to us...   Mar 3 2012, 06:13 PM
- - MarcF   Some changes in Mercury nomenclature and new names...   May 6 2013, 01:35 PM
- - MahFL   QUOTE (MarcF @ May 6 2013, 02:35 PM) Some...   May 8 2013, 11:59 AM


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