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Mercury Crater-Naming Contest Winners Announced

Washington, D.C—The MESSENGER Education and Public Outreach (EPO) Team, coordinated through Carnegie Science, announces the winning names from its competition  to name five impact craters on Mercury. The contest submissions had to be submitted by January 15, 2015, and the International Astronomical Union (IAU)—the governing body of planetary and satellite nomenclature since 1919—made the selections …