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Brahms (crater)

crater on Mercury

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ897340 ↗
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Brahms is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 100 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1979. Brahms is named for the German composer Johannes Brahms, who lived from 1833 to 1897. The crater was first imaged by Mariner 10 in 1974.

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“Brahms (crater)” enters the record as crater on Mercury. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Brahms, crater and Mercury can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1833, 1897, 1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Brahms, crater and Mercury.
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“Brahms (crater)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Brahms, crater and Mercury provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q897340. Authority coordinates are 58.500, -176.200. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 1833, 1897 and 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Brahms (crater)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.