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Beckett

crater on Mercury

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crater on Mercury

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Beckett is a pit-floored crater on Mercury, which was discovered in January 2008 during the first flyby of the planet by the MESSENGER spacecraft. The crater was named in November 2008 by the IAU. Its floor is not smooth and displays a telephone or arc-shaped collapse feature, which is also called a central pit. The size of the pit is . Such a feature may have resulted from the collapse of a magma chamber underlying the central part of the crater (see also Gibran and Picasso). The collapse feature is an analog of Earth's volcanic calderas. References Impact craters on Mercury

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Beckett: family name · Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and sire · unincorporated community and census-designated place in Glou · unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio

Overview

Beckett is a pit-floored crater on Mercury, which was discovered in January 2008 during the first flyby of the planet by the MESSENGER spacecraft. The crater was named in November 2008 by the IAU. Its floor is not smooth and displays a telephone or arc-shaped collapse feature, which is also called a central pit. The size of the pit is . Such a feature may have resulted from the collapse of a magma chamber underlying the central part of the crater (see also Gibran and Picasso). The collapse feature is an analog of Earth's volcanic calderas. References Impact craters on Mercury

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).