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    Colombo is a lunar impact crater that lies on the strip of rough continental terrain between Mare Fecunditatis to the east and Mare Nectaris in the west...
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  • may also refer to: Colombo (crater), lunar crater Colombo Airport (disambiguation), two airports that serve Colombo, Sri Lanka Colombo District, administrative...
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  • Thumbnail for Magelhaens (lunar crater)
    south-southwest of the crater Goclenius, about midway between Gutenberg to the northwest and Colombo to the southeast. This crater has a somewhat slender...
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  • Thumbnail for Santbech (crater)
    lunar impact crater that is located to the southeast of Mare Nectaris. It lies south-southwest of the prominent crater Colombo. About one crater diameter...
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  • Thumbnail for Gutenberg (crater)
    Gutenberg. To the southeast are the craters Goclenius, Magelhaens and Colombo. To the west-southwest is the crater Gaudibert, across the Montes Pyrenaeus...
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  • Thumbnail for McClure (crater)
    small lunar impact crater. It is located along the western edge of the Mare Fecunditatis, due east of the prominent crater Colombo. To the north of McClure...
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  • Thumbnail for Mercury (planet)
    Mercury is heavily cratered, as a result of countless impact events that have accumulated over billions of years. Its largest crater, Caloris Planitia...
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  • Thumbnail for Manley (crater)
    for this crater was allocated at the request of the BepiColombo MCAM team, who realized that it would be prominent in images from BepiColombo's 3rd fly-by...
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  • 1,624 craters (31.2%)   Venusian: 900 craters (17.3%)   Mercurian: 397 craters (7.6%)   Martian: 1,092 craters (21.0%)   Others: 1,198 craters (23.0%)...
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  • Thumbnail for Cook (crater)
    is a lunar impact crater that lies in the western part of the Mare Fecunditatis, just to the southeast of the prominent crater Colombo. To the southwest...
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  • Thumbnail for Bohnenberger (crater)
    perimeter of the mare. To the east beyond the mountains is the larger crater Colombo. The crater has a low rim along the north wall, and the floor is somewhat...
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  • Thumbnail for Bellot (crater)
    and Crozier to the southeast. To the southwest is Colombo, and to the west is Magelhaens. This crater is circular and bowl-shaped, with a small interior...
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    Mercurian: 414 craters (7.9%)   Lunar: 1,624 craters (31.1%)   Martian: 1,092 craters (20.9%)   Venusian: 900 craters (17.2%)   Others: 1,198 craters (22.9%)...
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  • Thumbnail for Petrarch (crater)
    Petrarch is a crater on Mercury. This crater is located within the distorted terrain on the opposite side of the planet from the Caloris Basin. It was...
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  • the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...
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  • Thumbnail for Crozier (crater)
    east-northeast of the prominent crater Colombo, and southeast of the small crater Bellot. The narrow rim of this crater forms a distorted enclosure that...
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  • The Colombo central bus station bombing was the car bombing of the central bus terminal of Colombo carried out on April 21, 1987, in Pettah, Colombo, Sri...
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  • The Colombo World Trade Centre Bombing was a terrorist attack which occurred on 15 October 1997 and was carried out by the LTTE during the separatist...
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  • Thumbnail for BepiColombo
    BepiColombo is a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to the planet Mercury. The mission...
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  • mathematician, geophysicist and scientific administrator Coulomb (crater), a lunar crater named after the French physicist Saint-Coulomb, a French commune...
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  • Thumbnail for Calder (crater)
    Calder is a small crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2013. Calder is named for the American sculptor...
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    from relatively fresh rayed-craters, to highly degraded crater remnants. Mercurian craters differ subtly from Lunar craters – the extent of their ejecta...
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  • Thumbnail for Exploration of Mercury
    before entering orbit around Mercury. A third mission to Mercury, BepiColombo, a joint mission between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)...
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  • Thumbnail for Permanently shadowed crater
    A permanently shadowed crater is a depression on a body in the Solar System within which lies a point that is always in darkness. As of 2019, there are...
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  • Thumbnail for Fonteyn (crater)
    Fonteyn is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the IAU in 2012, after the English ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn. The crater Munkácsy is to the...
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  • Thumbnail for Degas (crater)
    material blasted out during the crater's formation. Craters older than Degas are covered by the ray material, while younger craters are seen superimposed on...
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  • Thumbnail for Kuiper (Mercurian crater)
    Kuiper is a moderate-size crater with a central peak cluster located at 11°21′S 31°14′W / 11.35°S 31.23°W / -11.35; -31.23 on Mercury. It is 62 kilometers...
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  • to forty years. A crater on Mars was named in his honour. The reflector telescope that he used was gifted to the University of Colombo many years after...
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  • free dictionary. Columbus is a Latinized version of the Italian surname "Colombo". It most commonly refers to: Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), the Italian...
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  • Thumbnail for Grotell (crater)
    Grotell is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 48.25 kilometres (29.98 miles). Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)...
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