Shelley (crater)

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
MESSENGER NAC image
PlanetMercury
Coordinates47.69°S 128.27°W / -47.69; -128.27
QuadrangleMichelangelo
Diameter171 km
EponymPercy Bysshe Shelley

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

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


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