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Boethius (Mercurian crater)

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Coordinates:0°59′S73°38′W / 0.98°S 73.64°W /-0.98; -73.64

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Crater on Mercury

For the lunar crater, seeBoethius (lunar crater).

Boethius
MESSENGER WAC of Boethius
Feature type	Impact crater
Location	Beethoven quadrangle,Mercury
Coordinates	0°59′S73°38′W / 0.98°S 73.64°W /-0.98; -73.64
Diameter	114 km (71 mi)
Eponym	Boethius

Hollows on the peaks in central Boethius crater, with the prominent scarp at center.

Boethius is acrater on the planetMercury. It was named afterAnicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, the Roman philosopher, by theIAU in 1976.^[1] The crater was first imaged byMariner 10 in 1974.^[2]

Boethius is filled with smooth plains material, covering its original surface, and it has been subsequently deformed by a scarp.^[3] Boethius is one of 110peak ring basins on Mercury,^[4] but only the northern arc of the peak ring is visible.Hollows are present on the arc of mountains.

The smaller craterCaruso is west of Boethius, andPolygnotus is to the east.Tansen is to the northeast.

References

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^"Boethius".Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature.NASA. Retrieved10 March 2022.
^Davies, M. E.; Dwornik, S. E.; Gault, D. E.; Strom, R. G. (1978).Atlas of Mercury. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. pp. 1–128.ISBN 978-1-114-27448-8. Special Publication SP-423.
^MESSENGER Gathers Unprecedented Data about Mercury's Surface, Release Date: October 7, 2008. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
^Chapman, C. R., Baker, D. M. H., Barnouin, O. S., Fassett, C. I., Marchie, S., Merline, W. J., Ostrach, L. R., Prockter, L. M., and Strom, R. G., 2018. Impact Cratering of Mercury. InMercury: The View AfterMESSENGER edited by Sean C. Solomon, Larry R. Nittler, and Brian J. Anderson. Cambridge Planetary Science. Chapter 9.

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