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■ Measured / ComputedMercator
Crater (46.3 km) — Gerard De Kremer (Gerhardus Mercator); Belgian cartographer, geographer, mathematician (1512-1594).
- Coordinates
- -29.2535, -26.1104 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 46.322285
- Etymology
- Gerard De Kremer (Gerhardus Mercator); Belgian cartographer, geographer, mathematician (1512-1594).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1935
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/3849
- Clean name
- Mercator
- Ethnicity
- Belgium
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-94
Primary source