Goeppert-Mayer (crater)

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Goeppert-Mayer
Goeppert-Mayer crater PIA00269.jpg
Stereo radar images by Magellan
Location Venus
Coordinates 59°42′N26°48′E / 59.7°N 26.8°E / 59.7; 26.8
Diameter33.5 km (20.8 mi)
Eponym Maria Goeppert-Mayer [1]

Goeppert-Mayer is a crater on the planet Venus. It was named in 1991 after German physicist and Nobel laureate Maria Goeppert-Mayer. [2]

It is 35 kilometers (22 mi) in diameter and lies above an escarpment at the edge of a ridge belt in Southern Ishtar Terra. West of the crater the scarp has more than one kilometer (0.6 miles) of relief. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Chapman, Kit (13 June 2019). Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   9781472953919 . Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  2. ↑ "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature – Goeppert-Mayer". International Astronomical Union. October 1, 2006. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
  3. ↑ Guide to Magellan Image Interpretation. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. p. 39.
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