Chaikovskij (crater)

Chaikovskij (sometimes Tchaikovsky) is a crater on Mercury.

[1] Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976.

Chaikovskij is named for the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who lived from 1840 to 1893.

[2] Veronese and Mistral craters are to the southwest of Chaikovskij.

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