List of craters on Mercury
- Mercurian: 414 craters (7.9%)
- Lunar: 1,624 craters (31.1%)
- Martian: 1,092 craters (20.9%)
- Venusian: 900 craters (17.2%)
- Others: 1,198 craters (22.9%)
This is a list of named craters on Mercury, the innermost planet of the Solar System (for other features, see list of geological features on Mercury).[2] Most Mercurian craters are named after famous writers, artists and composers. According to the rules by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, all new craters must be named after an artist that was famous for more than fifty years, and dead for more than three years, before the date they are named.[6] Craters larger than 250 km in diameter are referred to as "basins" (also see § Terminology).[7][8]
As of 2021, there are 414 named Mercurian craters,[2] a small fraction of the total number of named Solar System craters, most of which are lunar, Martian and Venerian craters.[3][4][5][a]
Other, non-planetary bodies with numerous named craters include Callisto (141), Ganymede (131), Rhea (128), Vesta (90), Ceres (90), Dione (73), Iapetus (58), Enceladus (53), Tethys (50) and Europa (41). For a full list, see List of craters in the Solar System.
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Crater | Coordinates | Diameter (km) | Approval Year | Eponym | Ref |
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Faulkner | 8°05′N 76°58′E / 8.08°N 76.97°E | 168 | 2012 | William Faulkner, American author | WGPSN |
Fet | 4°43′S 179°47′E / 4.72°S 179.78°E | 79 | 1985 | Afanasy Fet, Russian poet | WGPSN |
Firdousi | 3°28′N 65°19′E / 3.47°N 65.32°E | 98 | 2010 | Hakim Ferdowsi, Persian poet | WGPSN |
Flaubert | 13°50′S 72°42′W / 13.83°S 72.7°W | 95 | 1985 | Gustave Flaubert, French author | WGPSN |
Flaiano | 21°17′S 76°44′W / 21.29°S 76.73°W | 43 | 2013 | Ennio Flaiano, Italian author | WGPSN |
Fonteyn | 32°49′N 95°31′E / 32.82°N 95.51°E | 29 | 2012 | Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer | WGPSN |
Fuller | 82°38′N 42°39′W / 82.63°N 42.65°W | 26.97 | 2013 | Richard Buckminster Fuller, American engineer and architect | WGPSN |
Futabatei | 16°03′S 83°31′W / 16.05°S 83.52°W | 57 | 1976 | Futabatei Shimei, Japanese author | WGPSN |
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Crater | Coordinates | Diameter (km) | Approval Year | Eponym | Ref |
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Ibsen | 24°21′S 35°53′W / 24.35°S 35.89°W | 159 | 1976 | Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright | WGPSN |
Ictinus | 79°34′S 174°14′W / 79.56°S 174.24°W | 58.03 | 1976 | Iktinos, Ancient Greek architect | WGPSN |
Imhotep | 17°58′S 37°29′W / 17.97°S 37.48°W | 159 | 1976 | Imhotep, Ancient Egyptian architect | WGPSN |
Ives | 32°52′S 111°59′W / 32.87°S 111.99°W | 18 | 1979 | Charles Ives, American composer | WGPSN |
Izquierdo | 1°40′S 107°02′E / 1.66°S 107.04°E | 174 | 2009 | María Izquierdo, Mexican painter | WGPSN |
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Crater | Coordinates | Diameter (km) | Approval Year | Eponym | Ref |
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Janáček | 55°43′N 154°51′W / 55.72°N 154.85°W | 47 | 1985 | Leoš Janáček, Czech composer | WGPSN |
Jiménez | 81°50′N 152°19′W / 81.83°N 152.31°W | 27 | 2019 | Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and author | WGPSN |
Jókai | 71°56′N 138°27′W / 71.93°N 138.45°W | 93 | 1979 | Mór Jókai, Hungarian writer | WGPSN |
Jobim | 32°27′N 66°53′W / 32.45°N 66.88°W | 167 | 2015 | Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer | WGPSN |
Joplin | 38°34′S 25°31′E / 38.56°S 25.51°E | 139 | 2012 | Scott Joplin, American composer | WGPSN |
Josetsu | 83°35′N 134°56′W / 83.58°N 134.93°W | 30 | 2019 | Taikō Josetsu, Japanese ink painter | WGPSN |
Judah Ha-Levi | 10°47′N 108°01′W / 10.79°N 108.01°W | 85 | 1976 | Yehuda Halevi, Spanish-Jewish writer | WGPSN |
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Crater | Coordinates | Diameter (km) | Approval Year | Eponym | Ref |
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Ōkyo | 70°03′S 74°40′W / 70.05°S 74.66°W | 66 | 1985 | Maruyama Ōkyo, Japanese painter | WGPSN |
Oskison | 60°22′N 145°14′E / 60.36°N 145.24°E | 122 | 2008 | John Milton Oskison, Cherokee author | WGPSN |
Ovid | 69°46′S 20°14′W / 69.77°S 20.23°W | 41 | 1976 | Ovid, Roman poet | WGPSN |
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Crater | Coordinates | Diameter (km) | Approval Year | Eponym | Ref |
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Qi Baishi | 4°19′S 164°22′E / 4.31°S 164.37°E | 15 | 2008 | Qi Baishi, Chinese painter | WGPSN |
Qiu Ying | 82°40′N 85°42′W / 82.67°N 85.7°W | 20 | 2012 | Qiu Ying, Chinese painter | WGPSN |
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Crater | Coordinates | Diameter (km) | Approval Year | Eponym | Ref |
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Unkei | 31°47′S 62°36′W / |