Shelley (crater)

Shelley
	MESSENGER NAC image
Planet	Mercury
Coordinates	47°41′S 128°16′W / 47.69°S 128.27°W
Quadrangle	Michelangelo
Diameter	171 km
Eponym	Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the IAU in 1979, after the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lived from 1792 to 1822.^[1] The crater was first imaged by Mariner 10 in 1974.^[2]

Shelley is overlain by the slightly smaller and younger crater Delacroix, to the north.

References

^ "Shelley". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
^ Davies, M. E.; Dwornik, S. E.; Gault, D. E.; Strom, R. G. (1978). Atlas of Mercury. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. pp. 1–128. ISBN 978-1-114-27448-8. Special Publication SP-423.

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[1] "Shelley". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 8 August 2021.

[Davies_1978-2] Davies, M. E.; Dwornik, S. E.; Gault, D. E.; Strom, R. G. (1978). Atlas of Mercury. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. pp. 1–128. ISBN 978-1-114-27448-8. Special Publication SP-423.

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