Brooks (crater)

Brooks

MESSENGER NAC image of Brooks
Feature type	Central-peak impact crater
Location	Michelangelo quadrangle, Mercury
Coordinates	45.22°S 168.02°W / -45.22; -168.02
Diameter	34 km
Eponym	Gwendolyn Brooks

Brooks is a crater on the southwestern part Mercury. It has a diameter of 34 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2015, and refers to the American poet and novelist Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000).[1]

Brooks is east of the large crater Dostoevskij.

References

1. "Brooks". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 7 February 2019.