Yoshikawa (crater)

Yoshikawa
	MESSENGER image
Planet	Mercury
Coordinates	81.21°N 253.97°W
Quadrangle	Borealis quadrangle
Diameter	30 km
Eponym	Eiji Yoshikawa

Yoshikawa is a crater on Mercury, near the north pole. It was named by the IAU in 2012 after the Japanese novelist Eiji Yoshikawa.[1]

S band radar data from the Arecibo Observatory collected between 1999 and 2005 indicates a radar-bright area along the southern interior of Yoshikawa, which is probably indicative of a water ice deposit, and lies within the permanently shadowed part of the crater.[2]

Yoshikawa is south of the slightly smaller Vonnegut crater.

References

"Yoshikawa (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
Chabot, N. L., D. J. Lawrence, G. A. Neumann, W. C. Feldman, and D. A. Paige, 2018. Mercury's Polar Deposits. In Mercury: The View After MESSENGER edited by Sean C. Solomon, Larry R. Nittler, and Brian J. Anderson. Cambridge Planetary Science. Chapter 13, Figure 13.2.

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[1] "Yoshikawa (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.

[2] Chabot, N. L., D. J. Lawrence, G. A. Neumann, W. C. Feldman, and D. A. Paige, 2018. Mercury's Polar Deposits. In Mercury: The View After MESSENGER edited by Sean C. Solomon, Larry R. Nittler, and Brian J. Anderson. Cambridge Planetary Science. Chapter 13, Figure 13.2.