Molière (crater)
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A black and white detail from a map of an area on Mercury including Molière, from Mariner 10 imagery.
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| Planet | Mercury |
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| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Diameter | 132 km |
| Eponym | Jean Baptiste Poquelin |
Molière is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 132 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 15.6°N, 16.9°W, south of the crater Rodin, southeast of the crater Abu Nuwas, and northeast of the crater Asvaghosa. The nearly circular rim of the crater is cut off into a flat edge on its southern and southwestern ends, and on its eastern side the rim is indented by a smaller crater. The crater is named for the 17th century French dramatist and satirist Molière. The name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1976.[1][2]
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- ↑ NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.
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