Balzac (crater)

Balzac
	MESSENGER WAC mosaic
Planet	Mercury
Coordinates	10.62°N 144.67°W
Diameter	67 km
Eponym	Honoré de Balzac

Balzac is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. Balzac is named for the French writer Honoré de Balzac, who lived from 1799 to 1850.[1]

Balzac is one of the largest craters of the Kuiperian system on Mercury. The largest is Bartók crater.[2]

Hollows are present within Balzac.

Views

Mariner 10 image with Balzac in upper right
MESSENGER mosaic
Approximate color image of Balzac crater
Oblique view of northern Balzac

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gollark: PotatOS has a semi-independent VFS/sandbox library, but I had to add a *lot* of patches for sandbox escapes and stuff to PotatoBIOS, so it's hard to use it separately.

gollark: Unless it doesn't.

gollark: Anyway, many of the bugs in potatOS come from stuff like the SPUDNET daemon not being subject to sandboxing, so people can fake events and stuff going to that in increasingly convoluted ways to make it execute code when it shouldn't.

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References

"Balzac". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
Denevi, B. W., Ernst, C. M., Prockter, L. M., and Robinson, M. S., 2018. The Geologic History of Mercury. In Mercury: The View After MESSENGER edited by Sean C. Solomon, Larry R. Nittler, and Brian J. Anderson. Cambridge Planetary Science. Chapter 6, Table 6.4.

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[1] "Balzac". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 14 January 2020.

[2] Denevi, B. W., Ernst, C. M., Prockter, L. M., and Robinson, M. S., 2018. The Geologic History of Mercury. In Mercury: The View After MESSENGER edited by Sean C. Solomon, Larry R. Nittler, and Brian J. Anderson. Cambridge Planetary Science. Chapter 6, Table 6.4.