Fonteyn (crater)
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Fonteyn is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the
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in 2012, after the English ballet dancer
Margot Fonteyn Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, DBE ( Hookham; 18 May 191921 February 1991), known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn (), was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with th ...
. The crater Munkácsy is to the southeast of Fonteyn.


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