Lermontov (crater)

Mercury crater data


caption = Detail of a black and white map of an area of Mercury including Lermontov, from Mariner 10 imagery.
latitude = 15.2
N_or_S = N
longitude = 48.1
E_or_W = W
diameter = 152 km
depth =
region = Kuiper quadrangle
eponym = Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

Lermontov is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 152 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 15.2°N, 48.1°W, southwest of the crater Proust and northeast of the crater Giotto. It has a circular rim and a flat, featureless crater floor. Lermontov is likely a mature crater, but it remains a bright feature because of low opaque material on its floor. The crater is named after Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, a 19th century Russian poet. The name was approved 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=63525
accessdate=October 28
accessyear=2007] ["NASA World Wind" 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.] [Blewett, D. T., B. R. Hawke, P. G. Lucey, and M. S. Robinson (2007), [http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2006JE002713.shtml A Mariner 10 color study of Mercurian craters] , J. Geophys. Res., 112, E02005, doi:10.1029/2006JE002713.]

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* [http://history.nasa.gov/SP-423/h6.htm Kuiper quadrangle maps]