Talk:List of craters on Mars

message: Why is it "in Mars"? Shouldn't it be "on Mars"? I thought it was always on a whole planet, and then in a particular part of a planet (or the Moon...for example, the Eagle landed in the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon, I would say). Adam Bishop 03:59, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  in Mars or on Mars? 

message: The crater Meitner is missing in the list. There is a "picture" at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/craters/slide_8.html
-- Siffler 19:37, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, but this is a crater on Venus. Awolf002 19:43, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Many excuses! You were some minutes faster than I in recognising the mistake. Thanks!
--Siffler 19:47, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Lise Meitner

message: There are new named craters on Mars since September 20th! See Spaceref article and USGS. I will add those to this list. Awolf002 16:53, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New crater names

message: AecisBrievenbus brought this to attention at the science reference desk: The passage "after towns (with a population of less than 100,000) on Earth." in the second sentence is obviously incorrect, as there are craters named after Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Bremerhaven, Bristol, Cadiz, Cairns, Canberra, Charleston, Innsbruck, Johannesburg, Kaliningrad, Madrid, and so forth. Does anyone know whether this 100,000 rule is old (or new)? Is this merely a large group of exceptions? Or is the information plain false? ---Sluzzelin 02:03, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Towns with a population of less than 100,000? 

message: Where did the data of the craters come from in this list? Some numbers here are wildly different from those in the craters' individual articles. For example, Beagle is listed as having a diameter of 89.8 (km? inches? furlong?), while in the article it's 35m. Same for Victoria, 30.0 (km? inches?) vs 750m in the article. Also many craters have listed locations inconsistent with their articles, e.g. Bonneville: 82.1N, 105.8W here, vs 14.6S, 175.5E in the article; Victoria is on the opposite side of the location listed in its article, too. Any explanations? -- 128.148.60.60 (talk) 06:01, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy of the table? 

message: I think there may be a typo on this entry, probably in the source material used by the wiki editor, but I cannot find any confirmation from any alternate source.
Aktaj does not seem to be the name of any location in Russia or the former Soviet Union.  There is an area called Aktau in Kazakhstan, which seems to have some minor connection with Mars based on other internet entries.
Another point, perhaps immaterial, is an editorial hint.  The letter "j" is a common typegraphical translocation for the letter "u", being located just below it on the QWERTY keyboard.  A coincidence?   
PJLareau (talk) 01:52, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martian Crater: Aktaj 

message: Although I have nothing to back up this question, I have real doubt that this Crater was named after the person indicated on this page who has no tie to the standard categories of people or places that are used to officially name Martian craters.  On the other hand, there is another person with this common name who does have a direct connection with Mars:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martin_(NASA)
Can someone check this out?  I hesitate to "correct" this without much better evidence than my hunch! 
PJLareau (talk) 00:50, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed it is. MER-C 05:32, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martian Crater: Martin 

message: The subpages for this page should be renamed using parentheses instead of colons to avoid creating a pseudonamespace here.  Nicole Sharp (talk) 07:05, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  colons