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Nine New Crater Names Approved on Mercury
30 July 2012
The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved nine new names for craters on Mercury: Egonu, Gaudí, Kandinsky, Petronius, Prokofiev, Tolkien, Tryggvadóttir, Qiu Ying, and Yoshikawa. For details, see the
list of Mercury feature names
and the
map of Mercury quadrangle H-1
in the
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
.
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