page_title: Tolkien (crater)
hierarchical_section_title: Tolkien (crater)
caption_attribution_description: English: Tolkien crater (center) on Mercury. Tryggvadóttir crater is in lower left, and the north pole of Mercury is along its rim in the foreground. Gordimer crater is in upper left. Resolution: 99 m/pixel Emission Angle: 41.7 Incidence Angle: 88.7 Latitude: 88.6 Longitude: 155.5 Phase Angle: 130
context_page_description: Tolkien is one of the northernmost craters on Mercury, located in the Borealis quadrangle at 88.82 N, 211.08 W. It is 50 km in diameter. It was named after the South African born British writer J. R. R. Tolkien. The name was approved by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature on August 6, 2012. Since Tolkien is very close to the north pole, and Mercury has almost no axial tilt, Tolkien receives very little sunlight. S band radar data from the Arecibo Observatory collected between 1999 and 2005 indicates a radar-bright area covers the entire floor of Tolkien, which is probably indicative of a water ice deposit.
context_section_description: Tolkien is one of the northernmost craters on Mercury, located in the Borealis quadrangle (north pole region) at 88.82 N, 211.08 W. It is 50 km in diameter. It was named after the South African born British writer J. R. R. Tolkien. The name was approved by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature on August 6, 2012. Since Tolkien is very close to the north pole, and Mercury has almost no axial tilt, Tolkien receives very little sunlight.  S band radar data from the Arecibo Observatory collected between 1999 and 2005 indicates a radar-bright area covers the entire floor of Tolkien, which is probably indicative of a water ice deposit.
caption: MESSENGER image with Tolkien at center.  The north pole is on the rim of Tryggvadóttir, the crater at left foreground.
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