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Crater on Mercury

Melville
Feature type	Impact crater
Location	Victoria quadrangle, Mercury
Coordinates	21°30′N 10°06′W / 21.5°N 10.1°W / 21.5; -10.1
Diameter	154 km
Eponym	Herman Melville

Melville is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 154 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Melville is named for the American novelist Herman Melville, who lived from 1819 to 1891.

References

Moore, Patrick (2000). The Data Book of Astronomy. Institute of Physics Publishing. ISBN 0-7503-0620-3.
"Melville". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 4 July 2012.

Mercury

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Geography

General	Albedo features Atmosphere Features Magnetic field
Regions	Quadrangles
Quadrangles	Bach Beethoven Borealis Debussy Derain Discovery Eminescu Hokusai Kuiper Michelangelo Neruda Shakespeare Raditladi Tolstoj Victoria
Mountains and volcanoes	Caloris Montes
Plains and plateaus	Apārangi Planitia Borealis Planitia Budh Planitia Caloris Planitia Mearcair Planitia Odin Planitia Sobkou Planitia Stilbon Planitia Suisei Planitia Tir Planitia Utaridi Planitia
Canyons and valleys	Arecibo Catena Arecibo Vallis Goldstone Catena Goldstone Vallis Haystack Catena Haystack Vallis Simeiz Vallis
Ridges and rupes	Antoniadi Dorsum Adventure Rupes Beagle Rupes Discovery Rupes Enterprise Rupes Hero Rupes Resolution Rupes Santa María Rupes Victoria Rupes
Basins and fossae	Caloris Basin Pantheon Fossae Raditladi Basin Rembrandt Basin Skinakas (hypothetical basin)
Craters	Abedin Abu Nuwas Africanus Horton Ahmad Baba Ailey Aksakov Akutagawa Al-Akhtal Alencar Al-Hamadhani Al-Jāhiz Alver Amaral Amru Al-Qays Andal Aneirin Angelou Anguissola Anyte Apollodorus Aristoxenes Aśvaghoṣa Atget Bach Balagtas Balanchine Baranauskas Balzac Bartók Barma Bashō Beckett Beethoven Bek Belinskij Bello Benoit Berkel Bernini Bjornson Boccaccio Boethius Botticelli Brahms Bramante Brontë Bruegel Brunelleschi Burns Byron Callicrates Camões Carducci Carolan Calvino Cervantes Cézanne Chaikovskij Chao Meng-Fu Chekov Chesterton Chiang Kʻui Chŏng Chʼŏl Chopin Chu Ta Coleridge Copland Copley Couperin Cunningham Dali Dario De Graft Debussy Degas Delacroix Derain Derzhavin Desprez Dickens Dominici Donne Dostoevskij Dowland Durer Dvorak Eastman Eitoku Eminescu Enheduanna Enwonwu Equiano Faulkner Fet Firdousi Flaubert Flaiano Futabatei Gainsborough Gauguin Geddes Ghiberti Gibran Giotto Glinka Gluck Goethe Gogol Goya Grieg Guido d'Arezzo Hals Han Kan Handel Harunobu Hauptmann Hawthorne Haydn Heine Hemingway Hesiod Hiroshige Hitomaro Hodgkins Hokusai Holbein Holberg Holst Homer Horace Hovnatanian Hugo Hun Kal Hurley Ibsen Ictinus Imhotep Ives Izquierdo Janáček Jokai Judah Ha-Levi Kalidasa Karsh Keats Kenko Kertész Khansa Kipling Kōshō Kuan Han-Chʻing Kuiper Kulthum Kunisada Kurosawa Lange Larrocha Leopardi Lermontov Lessing Li Chʻing-Chao Li Po Liang Kʻai Liszt Lovecraft Lu Hsun Lysippus Ma Chih-Yuan Machaut Mahler Mansart Mansur March Mark Twain Martí Martial Matabei Matisse Melville Mena Mendes Pinto Michelangelo Mickiewicz Milton Mistral Mofolo Molière Monet Monteverdi Moody Mozart Munch Munkácsy Murasaki Mussorgskij Myron Nabokov Nampeyo Navoi Nawahi Neruda Nureyev Nervo Neumann Nizami Okyo Oskison Ovid Petrarch Phidias Picasso Poe Polygnotus Praxiteles Prokofiev Qi Baishi Rachmaninoff Raden Saleh Raditladi Rameau Raphael Rembrandt Renoir Rivera Rizal Rodin Rudaki Sander Scarlatti Schubert Shakespeare Sholem Aleichem Sinan Stravinsky Sullivan Sveinsdóttir Titian To Ngoc Van Tolstoj Velázquez Verdi Villa-Lobos Vivaldi Vyasa Xiao Zhao Yeats Zola
Other	Geology Ghost craters Inter-crater plains

Moons

Hypothetical moon of Mercury

Astronomy

Transits	Earth Mars
Asteroids	Mercury-crossing asteroids

Exploration

Current and past	Mariner 10 (1973–1975) MESSENGER (2004–2015) BepiColombo (2018–present)
Proposed	Mercury-P (~2031)
See also	Colonization of Mercury

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Portal

Herman Melville (works)

Novels

Typee (1846)
Omoo (1847)
Mardi (1849)
Redburn (1849)
White-Jacket (1850)
Moby-Dick (1851)
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852)
Israel Potter (1855)
The Confidence-Man (1857)
Billy Budd (1924, posthumous)

Short stories

The Piazza Tales (1856)	"The Piazza" "Bartleby, the Scrivener" "Benito Cereno" "The Lightning-Rod Man" "The Encantadas" "The Bell-Tower"
Uncollected	"Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!" (1853) "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs" (1854) "The Happy Failure" (1854) "The Fiddler" (1854) "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" (1855) "Jimmy Rose" (1855) "The 'Gees" (1856) "I and My Chimney" (1856) "The Apple-Tree Table" (1856)
Published posthumously	"The Two Temples" "Daniel Orme"

Poetry

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)
Clarel (1876)
John Marr and Other Sailors (1888)
Timoleon (1891)
Weeds and Wildings, and a Rose or Two (1924, posthumous)

Essays

"Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850)

Possible

Isle of the Cross (ca 1853)

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