Yeats (crater)

Mercury crater data


caption = A black and white screenshot of an area on Mercury including Yeats, from Mariner 10 imagery.
latitude = 9.2
N_or_S = N
longitude = 34.6
E_or_W = W
diameter = 100 km
depth =
eponym = William Butler Yeats

Yeats is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 100 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 9.2°N, 34.6°W, south of the crater Li Po and southwest of the crater Sinan. Its rim is circular and intact, except where an indentation is made by a craterlet on the north side. It is bordered by a smaller, unnamed crater to the northwest. On the otherwise featureless crater floor is a small, central mountain. The crater is named after William Butler Yeats, an Irish poet and dramatist. The name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. [cite web
title=USGS Astro: Planetary Nomenclature: Feature Data Search Results | work=USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature Feature Information
url=http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/jsp/FeatureNameDetail.jsp?feature=66817
accessdate=October 26
accessyear=2007] ["NASA World Wind" 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.]

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