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Hemingway (crater)

Coordinates: 17°30′N 2°54′W / 17.5°N 2.9°W / 17.5; -2.9
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Hemingway
Hemingway is in the lower right corner of this MESSENGER image, from its second flyby in October 2008
PlanetMercury
Coordinates17°30′N 2°54′W / 17.5°N 2.9°W / 17.5; -2.9
QuadrangleKuiper
Diameter126 km
EponymErnest Hemingway

Hemingway is a crater on Mercury. It has a patch of very dark material located near its center. The dark color is likely due to rocks that have a different mineralogical composition from that of the surrounding surface.[1]

The crater's name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2009. It is named for the American author Ernest Hemingway.[2]

Dark interior crater

The dark crater near the center of Hemingway is truly black, and due to its superposition over the other structures in the crater, it is a young feature.

References

  1. ^ A Patch of Black, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
  2. ^ "Hemingway". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 5 June 2020.