Sinan (crater)

Mercury crater data


caption = A black and white screenshot of an area on Mercury including Sinan, from Mariner 10 imagery.
latitude = 15.5
N_or_S = N
longitude = 19.8
E_or_W = W
diameter = 147 km
depth =
eponym = Joseph Sinan

Sinan is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 147 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 15.5°N, 29.8°W, northeast of the crater Yeats and southeast of the crater Li Po. It has one craterlet on the south-southwestern side of the crater floor, and it has a symmetrical pit slightly west of the center. Together with a smaller unnamed crater on its southern border, the crater Sinan forms a shape similar to that of the spade found in card games. The crater is named after Joseph Sinan, a 16th century Turkish architect. 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=65718
accessdate=October 27
accessyear=2007] ["NASA World Wind" 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.]

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