Africanus Horton (crater)
Appearance
![]() MESSENGER NAC image of Africanus Horton | |
Feature type | Impact crater |
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Location | Discovery quadrangle, Mercury |
Coordinates | 50°58′S 41°11′W / 50.96°S 41.19°W |
Diameter | 140 km |
Eponym | Africanus Horton |
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Africanus Horton is a circular impact crater on Mercury.[1] It was named by the IAU in 1976,[2] after Africanus Horton, a Creole African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown, Sierra Leone.[3]
The crater Andal is to the northeast of Africanus Horton, and Shevchenko is to the southwest. The crater Rameau and Discovery Rupes are to the southeast.
References
[edit]- ^ "Africanus Horton". We Name The Stars. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
- ^ "Africanus Horton". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ London, King's College. "Africanus Horton". King's College London. Retrieved 2024-05-15.