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Crater on Mercury

Dürer
Photo of Dürer crater (top left) by MESSENGER on its first flyby of Mercury in 2008
Feature type	Peak-ring impact basin
Location	Shakespeare quadrangle, Mercury
Coordinates	21°54′N 119°00′W / 21.9°N 119.0°W / 21.9; -119.0
Diameter	195 km
Eponym	Albrecht Dürer

Dürer is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 195 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Durer is named for the German artist Albrecht Dürer, who lived from 1471 to 1528.

Dürer is one of 110 peak ring basins on Mercury. Hollows are present within Dürer on and around the central peak ring.

Erté crater is north of Dürer, and Glinka is to the southeast.

Approximate color image of Dürer crater
Another view from MESSENGER with Dürer in the foreground
Detail of hollows in Dürer crater

References

Moore, Patrick (2000). The Data Book of Astronomy. Institute of Physics Publishing. ISBN 0-7503-0620-3.
"Durer". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
Chapman, C. R., Baker, D. M. H., Barnouin, O. S., Fassett, C. I., Marchie, S., Merline, W. J., Ostrach, L. R., Prockter, L. M., and Strom, R. G., 2018. Impact Cratering of Mercury. In Mercury: The View After MESSENGER edited by Sean C. Solomon, Larry R. Nittler, and Brian J. Anderson. Cambridge Planetary Science. Chapter 9.

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Proposed	Mercury-P (~2031)
See also	Colonization of Mercury

Category
Portal

v t e Albrecht Dürer
Paintings	List of paintings Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents (1490) Portrait of Frederick III of Saxony (1496) St. Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1496) Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70 (1497) Haller Madonna/Lot and His Daughters (c. 1498) Lamentation of Christ (Nuremberg) (attributed, c. 1498) Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds (1500) Lamentation of Christ (Munich) (c. 1500) Adoration of the Magi (1504) Bagnacavallo Madonna (before 1505) Christ Among the Doctors (1506) Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman (1505) Avarice (1507) Adam and Eve (1507) Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (1508) The Suicide of Lucretia (1518) Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (1519) Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I (1519) Portrait of Jakob Fugger (c. 1520) Portrait of Bernhart von Reesen (1521) Saint Jerome in His Study (1521) The Four Apostles (1526) Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher (1526) Portrait of Johann Kleberger (1526) Portrait of Jakob Muffel (1526)
Altarpieces	Dresden Altarpiece (c. 1496–1497/1503–1504) Seven Sorrows Polyptych (c. 1500) Paumgartner Altarpiece (c. 1500) Jabach Altarpiece (c. 1503–1504) Feast of the Rosary (1506) Heller Altarpiece (c. 1508) (with Matthias Grünewald) Adoration of the Trinity (1511)
Self-portraits	Self-Portrait at the Age of 13 (drawing, 1484) Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle (1493) Self-Portrait at 26 (1498) Self-Portrait at 28 (1500)
Woodcuts and engravings	List of woodcuts, engravings The Holy Family with the Dragonfly (1495) The Holy Family with Three Hares (1496) Apocalypse (1498) Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon (1498) The Four Witches (1497) The Sea Monster (1498–1500) Saint Sebastian at the Column (1500) Visitation (1503) Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate (1504) Great Passion (1497–1510) Life of the Virgin (1510–1511) Small Passion (1511) Knight, Death and the Devil (1513) Melencolia I (1514) Saint Jerome in His Study (1514) Triumphal Arch (1515) Rhinoceros (1515) Large Triumphal Carriage (1522) Portrait of Erasmus (1526)
Drawings, watercolours	Young Hare (1502) Great Piece of Turf (1503) Madonna of the Animals (c. 1503) Praying Hands (c. 1508) Wing of a European Roller (1512) Portrait of the Artist's Mother at the Age of 63 (1514) Head of a Walrus (1514) The Virgin and Child with a Flower on a Grassy Bench (c. 1503)
Museums	Albrecht Dürer's House
Family	Agnes Dürer (wife) Albrecht Dürer the Elder (father) Hans Dürer (brother) Anton Koberger (godfather)
Related	Alte Pinakothek (Self-Portrait) (2000 photograph) Dürer (crater)

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