BREAKING NEWS
Cloud Server Hosting For Online Businesses
Inexpensive SEO Services
Benefits of Wanting to play Free Online Slot machines
Equiano (crater)

Summary

Equiano is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 102 kilometers.[1] Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. Equiano is named for the abolitionist writer Olaudah Equiano, who lived from 1750 to 1797.[2]

Equiano
MESSENGER NAC image
PlanetMercury
Coordinates40°00′S 30°35′W / 40.0°S 30.59°W / -40.0; -30.59
QuadrangleDiscovery
Diameter102.0 km (63.4 mi)
EponymOlaudah Equiano

Equiano has patches of bright material near its central peak, and these may be hollows.

To the northeast of Equiano is Mofolo crater, and to the northwest is Neumann crater.

  • Higher resolution view showing the hollows around the central peak
    Higher resolution view showing the hollows around the central peak
  • Neumann (left foreground), Equiano (right), and Mofolo (upper left) craters. The crater in upper right is unnamed.
    Neumann (left foreground), Equiano (right), and Mofolo (upper left) craters. The crater in upper right is unnamed.

References edit

  1. ^ Moore, Patrick (2000). The Data Book of Astronomy. Institute of Physics Publishing. ISBN 0-7503-0620-3.
  2. ^ "Equiano". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 12 March 2021.