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Melville is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 154 kilometers.[1] Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Melville is named for the American novelist Herman Melville , who lived from 1819 to 1891.[2]
References [ ]
^ Moore, Patrick (2000). The Data Book of Astronomy . Institute of Physics Publishing . ISBN 0-7503-0620-3 .
^ "Melville" . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature . NASA . Retrieved 4 July 2012 .
Mercury
Geography
General Regions Quadrangles Mountains and volcanoes Plains and plateaus Canyons and valleys Ridges and rupes Basins and fossae
Caloris Basin
Pantheon Fossae
Raditladi Basin
Rembrandt Basin
Skinakas (hypothetical basin)
Craters Other
Moons Astronomy
Transits Asteroids
Mercury-crossing asteroids
Exploration
Current and past
Mariner 10 (1973–1975)
MESSENGER (2004–2015)
BepiColombo (2018–present)
Proposed See also
Related
Category
Portal
Herman Melville (works)
Novels
Typee (1846)
Omoo (1847)
Mardi (1849)
Redburn (1849)
White-Jacket (1850)
Moby-Dick (1851)
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852)
Israel Potter (1855)
The Confidence-Man (1857)
Billy Budd (1924, posthumous)
Short stories
The Piazza Tales (1856)
""
"Bartleby, the Scrivener "
"Benito Cereno "
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"The Encantadas "
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Uncollected
"Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! " (1853)
"" (1854)
"" (1854)
"" (1854)
"The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids " (1855)
"" (1855)
"" (1856)
"" (1856)
"" (1856)
Published posthumously
Poetry Essays
"Hawthorne and His Mosses " (1850)
Possible
Isle of the Cross (ca 1853)
Related
Herman Melville House (Troy, New York)
Arrowhead (Herman Melville House)
Herman Melville Memorial Room archives
Herman Melville bibliography
Melville crater
Melville Glacier
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