Greek first name, form of Margaret. Possibly named for engineer, physicist, and NASA astronautMae Jemison, the first African American woman to travel into space.
^abThe total number of named craters also includes names that have been dropped or not yet approved by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)
^The IAU cites Norma Olin Ireland'sIndex to the Women of the World as their source for the name "Anicia" as that of an ancient Greek poet; she gives it as an alternative name for Anyte of Tegea. Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead calls Anyte a physician on the basis of a story inPausanias which tells of her curing a blind man after a visit from the god Asclepius.
^Heidi Julia Bender was the author and illustrator ofCathy, Please Don't Move. Born in 1979, she lived inUniversity Park, Maryland. (Heidi Bender,Cathy, Please Don't Move, Make a Wish Foundation, Winchester, Virginia (1989),p. 21). She died in 1991 of an inoperable tumor in her brain stem(Heidi Julia Bender (Obituary), The Washington Post, April 2, 1991).
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