page_title: Gordimer (crater)
hierarchical_section_title: Gordimer (crater)
caption_attribution_description: English: Gordimer crater on Mercury (upper right). MESSENGER Wide Angle Camera. North is in upper left. Emission Angle: 29.1 Incidence Angle: 88.2 Latitude: 87.9 Longitude: 174.5 Phase Angle: 89.4
context_page_description: Gordimer is a crater on Mercury, near the north pole. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2019, after the South African writer Nadine Gordimer.
  The southern floor of Gordimer is in permanent shadow. S band radar data from the Arecibo Observatory collected between 1999 and 2005 indicates a radar-bright area covering the southern floor, which is probably indicative of a water ice deposit.
  Tolkien crater is northwest of Gordimer, and Chesterton is to the northeast. Tryggvadóttir is due north, at the pole.
context_section_description: Gordimer is a crater on Mercury, near the north pole.  Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2019, after the South African writer Nadine Gordimer.
  The southern floor of Gordimer is in permanent shadow.  S band radar data from the Arecibo Observatory collected between 1999 and 2005 indicates a radar-bright area covering the southern floor, which is probably indicative of a water ice deposit.
  Tolkien crater is northwest of Gordimer, and Chesterton is to the northeast.  Tryggvadóttir is due north, at the pole.
caption: MESSENGER WAC image, with Gordimer in upper right
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