Shelley | |
Globe: | Mercury |
Coordinates: | -47.69°N -128.27°W |
Diameter: | 171 km |
Eponym: | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Shelley is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the IAU in 1979, after the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lived from 1792 to 1822.[1]
Shelley is overlain by the slightly smaller and younger crater Delacroix, to the north.