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Mariko (crater)

crater on Venus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ6763442 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mariko is an impact crater on Venus. In 1997 it was named for a common female Japanese first name, in accordance with planetary nomenclature rules for Venusian craters under 20 km in diameter.

The crater is located in the V-36 quadrangle of Venus.

References

Dictionary of First Names, by Alfred J. Kolatch; Putnam Publishing Group, New York, 1990.

Editorial summary

“Mariko (crater)” enters the record as crater on Venus. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mariko, crater and Venus 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—1997, 1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mariko, crater and Venus.
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Why this record matters

“Mariko (crater)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mariko, crater and Venus provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6763442. Authority coordinates are -23.300, 132.900. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mariko (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.