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Mercury Name Proposal Summary

Mercury Name Proposal Summary. February 18 2008 Proposal contains unreleased MESSENGER data DO NOT DISTRIBUTE. Proposed Names. A) Crater, Raditladi B) Crater, Eminescu C) Crater, Sveinsdóttir D) Rupes, Beagle E) Crater, Neruda F) Crater, Zhao* (first or last) G) Crater, Cunningham

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Mercury Name Proposal Summary

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  1. Mercury Name Proposal Summary February 18 2008 Proposal contains unreleased MESSENGER data DO NOT DISTRIBUTE

  2. Proposed Names A) Crater, Raditladi B) Crater, Eminescu C) Crater, Sveinsdóttir D) Rupes, Beagle E) Crater, Neruda F) Crater, Zhao* (first or last) G) Crater, Cunningham H) Crater, Atget I) Crater, Sander J) Fossae, Pantheon K) Crater, Apollodorus L) Crater, Munch M) Crater, Kertész MESSENGER Mercury Context Map

  3. Feature A: Raditladi • Crater • Leetile Disang Raditladi (Botswana, playwright and poet 1910-1971) • 250 km diameter crater with unusual bright central peak (also color anomaly) • 27.3°N, 241.1°W, 118.9°E NOTE: All close up images to same scale

  4. Feature B: Eminescu • Crater • Mihau Eminescu (Romania, poet 1850-1889) • 125 km diameter, bright central peak with unusual spectral properties • 10.8°N, 245.8°W, 114.2°E

  5. Feature C: Sveinsdóttir • Crater • Júlíana Sveinsdóttir (Iceland, painter, 1889-1966) • 120 x 220 elliptical crater • 2.5°S, 259.9°W, 100.1°E

  6. Feature D: Beagle • Rupes • Beagle (England, Ship of discovery, carried Darwin on global expedition in the 1830s) • Giant three segment lobate scarp • 1.9°S, 258.8°W, 101.2°E

  7. Feature E: Neruda • Crater • Pablo Neruda (Chile, writer, 1904-1973) • 110 km diameter, mottled albedo and smooth floor • 52.4°S, 234.3°W, 125.7°E

  8. Feature F: Zhao* • Crater • Xiao Zhao (China, painter, active 1130-1162) • 35 km diameter, fresh, bright ray Kuiperian crater • 10.7°N, 236.2°W, 123.8°E *Check first name, last name

  9. Feature G: Cunningham • Crater • Imogen Cunningham (United States, photographer, 1883-1976) • 37 km diameter, fresh, bright ray Kuiperian crater • 30.5°N, 202.8°W, 157.2°E

  10. Feature H: Atget • Crater • Eugène Atget (French, Photographer, 1857-1927) • 100 km diameter low albedo crater SE floor of Caloris • 25.6°N, 193.4°W, 166.6°E

  11. Feature I: • Crater • August Sander (Germany, photographer, 1876-1964) • 58 km diameter crater floor of Caloris exhibiting unusual high albedo material on floor • 42.7°N, 205.3°W, 154.7°E

  12. Feature J: Pantheon • Fossae* • Pantheon (Italy, classic domed building, circa 125 AD) • ~200 km diameter radiating graben system with central impact crater (Apollodorus) • 30.5°N, 191.1°W, 162.9° Arrow indicates central crater, note series of radiating graben *proposed feature category

  13. Feature K: Apollodorus • Crater • Apollodorus of Damascus (Syria or Greece, architect, sometimes credited as architect of Pantheon, 2nd century AD) • 41 km diameter crater superposing radiating graben system • 30.5°N, 197.1°W, 162.9°E Arrow indicates crater with proposed name Apollodorus

  14. Feature L: Munch • Crater • Edvard Munch (Norway, painter, 1863-1944) • 220 km diameter crater, excavates anomalous material from depth (see low albedo streaks) • 8.1°N, 190.6°W, 169.4°E High Sun makes crater hard to see

  15. Feature M: Kertész • Crater • André Kertész (Hungary, Photographer) • 65 km diameter, Dark Crater SW Caloris - with odd high albedo blue floor materials • 27.5°N, 214.1°W, 145.9°E

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