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Planet | Mercury |
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Coordinates | 47°41′S128°16′W / 47.69°S 128.27°W |
Quadrangle | Michelangelo |
Diameter | 171 km |
Eponym | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Shelley is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the IAU in 1979, after the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lived from 1792 to 1822. [1] The crater was first imaged by Mariner 10 in 1974. [2]
Shelley is overlain by the slightly smaller and younger crater Delacroix, to the north.