Lovecraft is a crater on Mercury, located near the south pole. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2013, after American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
Lovecraft lies on the northeast rim of Roerich crater.
Lovecraft has a crater floor that is in permanent shadow.ILLUMINATION MAP OF MERCURY'S SOUTH POLE, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington So do nearby craters Chao Meng-Fu (at the south pole), Hurley, and L'Engle.
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