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Stevenson (crater)

crater on Mercury

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ25908383 ↗
Source-derived summary

Stevenson is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2012, after the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The crater was first imaged by Mariner 10 in 1974.

The crater is very old and is crisscrossed by chains of secondary impact craters.

The crater Tyagaraja is to the west of Stevenson.

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The public source identifies “Stevenson (crater)” as crater on Mercury. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Stevenson, crater and Mercury.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Stevenson, crater and Mercury providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Stevenson (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.