Hemingway (crater)

Hemingway
	Hemingway is in the lower right corner of this MESSENGER image, from its second flyby in October 2008
Planet	Mercury
Coordinates	17°30′N 2°54′W / 17.5°N 2.9°WCoordinates: 17°30′N 2°54′W / 17.5°N 2.9°W
Quadrangle	Kuiper
Diameter	126 km
Eponym	Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway is a crater on Mercury. It has a patch of very dark material located near its center. The dark color is likely due to rocks that have a different mineralogical composition from that of the surrounding surface.^[1]

The crater's name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2009. It is named for the American author Ernest Hemingway.^[2]^[why?]

Dark interior crater[]

The dark crater near the center of Hemingway is truly black, and due to its superposition over the other structures in the crater, it is a young feature.

Approximate color view
Oblique view facing east with the dark interior crater near center, showing that the dark crater is adjacent to a complex depression
Oblique view facing west with the dark interior crater near center

References[]

^ A Patch of Black, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
^ "Hemingway". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 5 June 2020.

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[1] A Patch of Black, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

[2] "Hemingway". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 5 June 2020.

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