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Shelley (crater)

Coordinates: 47°41′S 128°16′W / 47.69°S 128.27°W / -47.69; -128.27
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Shelley
MESSENGER NAC image
PlanetMercury
Coordinates47°41′S 128°16′W / 47.69°S 128.27°W / -47.69; -128.27
QuadrangleMichelangelo
Diameter171 km
EponymPercy Bysshe Shelley
Approximate color image of the surface of Mercury. The prominent crater at right is Hawthorne, and Shelley is above left of center.

Shelley is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the IAU in 1979, after the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lived from 1792 to 1822.[1]

Shelley is overlain by the slightly smaller and younger crater Delacroix, to the north.

References

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  1. ^ "Shelley". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 8 August 2021.