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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Munch (crater)

Munch is a crater on Mercury. It was discovered on the first flyby of Mercury by the MESSENGER spacecraft on 14 January 2008, and was named after Edvard Munch a Norwegian painter, printmaker, and draftsman (1863-1944) by the IAU in November of the same year.

Munch is west of Sander and Poe craters, within the Caloris basin.

References

  1. ^ Mercury's Munch Crater. Anne's Astronomy News. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 July 2013.
  2. ^ "Munch". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 2 May 2020.