Africanus Horton is a crater on Mercury. It was named by the IAU in 1976,[1] after Africanus Horton, a Creole African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Planet | Mercury |
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Coordinates | 50°58′S 41°11′W / 50.96°S 41.19°W |
Quadrangle | Discovery |
Diameter | 140 km |
Eponym | Africanus Horton |
The crater Andal is to the northeast of Africanus Horton, and Shevchenko is to the southwest. The crater Rameau and Discovery Rupes are to the southeast.