Roerich (crater)

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Roerich
Roerich crater EN0224816851M.jpg
MESSENGER image
Planet Mercury
Coordinates 84°23′S58°56′W / 84.39°S 58.94°W / -84.39; -58.94
Quadrangle Bach
Diameter 111.67 km (69.39 mi)
Eponym Nicholas Roerich
Roerich is in lower left of this MESSENGER image. Li Ch'ing-Chao is at the top, and Sadi is right of center. EN0210472807M web.png
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. [1]

Parts of Roerich crater are in permanent shadow. [2]

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

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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