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Names Approved for Mercury: Codesido, Wu Shujuan, El Husseini, Freire, Asawa, Halim, Bilokur, and Le Guin
Thu, Nov 14, 2024 00:00:00
The IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved the names Codesido, Wu Shujuan, El Husseini, Freire, Asawa, Halim, Bilokur, and Le Guin for eight craters on Mercury. For more information, please see the H-3, H-5, H-7, and H-15 nomenclature maps in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature.
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