Sholem Aleichem is a crater on Mercury, named after the

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writer

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in 1979. The inter-crater plain deposits have been deformed by linear ridges. Adjacent to the Sholem Aleichem crater to the southeast is the older and larger

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crater. Further to the east is

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. To the south and southeast are the similarly sized

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and Scarlatti. To the west is

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. To the northwest is

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Hollows

File:Sholem Aleichem crater MESSENGER WAC IGF to RGB.jpg, Approximate color image of western Sholem Aleichem crater, showing the hollows as white patches File:Hollows in Sholem Aleichem.jpg, ''MESSENGER'' image of hollows within Sholem Aleichem. File:Hollows EN1051631967M.map 2016.05.19.png, Very high-resolution image of hollows within Sholem Aleichem. Width is approximately 1.5 kilometers.

References

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