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Roerich (crater)

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Crater on Mercury Crater on Mercury
Roerich
MESSENGER image
PlanetMercury
Coordinates84°23′S 58°56′W / 84.39°S 58.94°W / -84.39; -58.94
QuadrangleBach
Diameter111.67 km (69.39 mi)
EponymNicholas Roerich
Roerich is in lower left of this MESSENGER image. Li Ch'ing-Chao is at the top, and Sadī is right of center.

Roerich is a crater on Mercury, near the south pole. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2013, after the Russian painter Nicholas Roerich.

Parts of Roerich crater are in permanent shadow.

To the immediate south of Roerich is Lovecraft crater. Beyond it is Chao Meng-Fu crater, at the south pole.

References

  1. "Roerich". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  2. ILLUMINATION MAP OF MERCURY'S SOUTH POLE, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington


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