Sinan (crater)
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| Sinan (crater) | |
 A black and white screenshot of an area on Mercury including Sinan, from Mariner 10 imagery. |
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| Coordinates | 15.5° N, 19.8° W |
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| Diameter | 147 km |
| Eponym | Joseph Sinan |
Sinan is an impact crater on the planet Mercury, 147 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 15.5°N, 29.8°W, northeast of the crater Yeats and southeast of the crater Li Po. It has one craterlet on the south-southwestern side of the crater floor, and it has a symmetrical pit slightly west of the center. Together with a smaller unnamed crater on its southern border, the crater Sinan forms a shame similar to that of the spade found in card games. The crater is named after Joseph Sinan, a 16th century Turkish architect. The name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976.[1][2]
[edit] References
- ^ USGS Astro: Planetary Nomenclature: Feature Data Search Results. USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature Feature Information. Retrieved on October 27, 2007.
- ^ NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.
