Mercury Craters: Famous Writers, Artists, and Composers: Location and Sizes

Beethoven: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770−1827). German composer and pianist. 20.9°S, 124.2°W; Diameter = 630 km. Byron: Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788−1824). British poet and politician. 8.4°S, 33°W; Diameter = 106.6 km. Dominici: Maria de Dominici (1645−1703). Maltese painter, sculptor, and Carmelite nun. 1.3°N, 36.5°W; Diameter = 20 km. Ellington: Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (1899−1974). American composer, pianist, and jazz orchestra leader. 12.9°S, 26.1°E; Diameter = 216 km. Faulkner: William Faulkner (1897−1962). American writer and Nobel Prize laureate. 8.1°N, 77.0°E; Diameter = 168 km. Hemingway: Ernest Hemingway (1899−1961). American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. 17.4°N, 3.1°W; Diameter = 126 km. Homer: Homer (8th to 12th centuries BC). Legendary Greek poet. 1.3°S, 36.6°W; Diameter = 319 km. Imhotep: Imhotep (27th century BC). Ancient Egyptian poet and architect. 18.0°S, 37.5°W; Diameter = 159 km. Izquierdo: Maria Izquierdo (1902−1955). Mexican painter. 1.7°S, 107.0°E; Diameter = 174 km. Kipling: Rudyard (1645−1703). English journalist, Short-story writer, poet, and novelist. 19.4°S, 72.0°E; Diameter = 164 km. Lange: Dorothea Lange (1895−1965). American documentary photographer and photojournalist. 6.3°N, 100.5°E; Diameter = 176.2 km. Mark Twain: Mark Twain (1835−1910). Pen name of American writer, humorist, publisher, and lecturer Samuel Langhorne Clemens. 10.9°S, 138.3°W; Diameter = 142 km. Michelangelo: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1575−1564). Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. 44.9°S, 109.8°W; Diameter = 229.7 km. Raphael: Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483−1520). Italian painter and architect. 20.4°S, 76.4°W; Diameter = 342 km. Ruysch: Rachel Ruysch (1664−1750). Netherlands still-life painter. 10.7°S, 94.1°E; Diameter = 64 km. Savage: Augusta Savage (1892−1962). African-American sculptor. 8.6°S, 93.4°E; Diameter = 93 km. Sveinstottir: Jú1íana Sveinstόttir (1889−1966). One of Iceland’s first female painters and textile artists. 2.8°S, 100.3°E; Diameter = 213 km. Tolstoi: Leo Tolstoy (1828−1910). Russian writer. 16.2°S, 164.6°W; Diameter = 355 km. Vieira da Silva: Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908−1992). Portuguese-French abstractionist painter. 1.5°N, 123.4°W; Diameter = 274 km. Vivaldi: Antonio Vivaldi (1678−1741). Itanian Baroque musical composer, violinist, teacher, and priest. 13.8°N, 85.9°W; Diameter = 213 km.