Homer (crater)

Homer is a crater on Mercury.

Deposits of material in and around this crater suggest the possibility of explosive volcanic eruptions at some point in the planet's history.

The naming of a Moon crater Homer at 24.3S, 133.6E was not approved by the IAU.

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    In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon speak to the same nature in man that is reached by Shakespeare and Lincoln. but in the accidents, the surroundings, the change is vast. All things now are mobile—movable.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)