Vyāsa (crater)

For other uses, see Vyasa (disambiguation).

Vyāsa

Feature type	Impact crater
Location	Victoria quadrangle, Mercury
Coordinates	43.5°N 80°W / 43.5; -80
Diameter	275 km (171 mi)
Eponym	Vyasa

Vyāsa is a crater on Mercury. It was named by the IAU in 1979, after the Indian poet Vyasa.^[1] It is Tolstojan in age.^[2]

Vyāsa is an ancient crater, overlain by two much younger craters – Stravinsky and Sholem Aleichem.^[3]

Central Vyāsa crater

References

1. "Vyāsa (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
2. Denevi, B. W., Ernst, C. M., Prockter, L. M., and Robinson, M. S., 2018. The Geologic History of Mercury. In Mercury: The View After MESSENGER edited by Sean C. Solomon, Larry R. Nittler, and Brian J. Anderson. Cambridge Planetary Science. Chapter 6, Table 6.3.
3. Grego, Peter (2008). "Our Current Knowledge of Mercury". Venus and Mercury, and How to Observe Them. Astronomers' Observing Guides. pp. 9–69. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-74286-1_2. ISBN 978-0-387-74285-4.