Goeppert-Mayer | |
Location: | Venus |
Coordinates: | 59.7°N 26.8°W |
Eponym: | Maria Goeppert-Mayer[1] |
Goeppert-Mayer is a crater on the planet Venus. It was named in 1991 after Polish physicist and Nobel laureate Maria Goeppert-Mayer.[2]
It is 35km (22miles) in diameter and lies above an escarpment at the edge of a ridge belt in Southern Ishtar Terra. West of the crater the scarp has more than one kilometer (0.6 miles) of relief.[3]