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Ellington is a
Ellington is a crater
A crater is a landform consisting of a hole or depression (geology), depression on a planetary surface, usually caused either by an object hitting the surface, or by geological activity on the planet. A crater has classically been described ...
on Mercury named after Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American Jazz piano, jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous Big band, jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life.
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, an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra. It was named by the IAU
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in 2012.
Ellington is one of 110 peak ring basins on Mercury.
Within Ellington is the smaller crater Berkel
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The river rises in Billerbeck, near the German city of Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, and crosses the border with the Netherlands near Vreden ( ...
. The somewhat smaller crater Derain is to the northwest. Both Derain and Ellington lie within a much older, 730-km-diameter, unnamed crater (referred to as b36).Chapman, C. R., ''et al.'', 2018. Impact Cratering on Mercury. In ''Mercury: The View After MESSENGER
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'' edited by Sean C. Solomon, Larry R. Nittler, and Brian J. Anderson. Cambridge Planetary Science. Chapter 9, Figure 9.2 (a). The crater Nasir
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is to the south of Ellington.
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