Africanus Horton (crater)
Africanus Horton is a crater on Mercury. It was named by the IAU in 1976,[1] after Africanus Horton, a Creole African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown, Sierra Leone.
 MESSENGER NAC image | |
| Planet | Mercury |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 50.96°S 41.19°W |
| Quadrangle | Discovery quadrangle |
| Diameter | 140 km |
| Eponym | Africanus Horton |
Mosaic of MESSENGER images
References
- "Africanus Horton". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
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