The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved new names for nine craters on Mercury: Bechet, Damer, David, Erté, Larrocha, Laxness, Monk, Rikyū, and Varma.
Halldór Laxness. Photo: PS.
One of the crater is named for Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness (1902-1998) who won the Nobel Prize in Litterature in 1955.
You can see a photo of the crater here:
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