Balzac is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the

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in 1976. Balzac is named for the French writer

Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly , ; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac : Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 179 ...

, who lived from 1799 to 1850. Balzac is one of the largest craters of the Kuiperian system on Mercury. The largest is Bartók crater.Denevi, B. W., Ernst, C. M., Prockter, L. M., and Robinson, M. S., 2018. The Geologic History of Mercury. In ''Mercury: The View After MESSENGER'' edited by Sean C. Solomon, Larry R. Nittler, and Brian J. Anderson. Cambridge Planetary Science. Chapter 6, Table 6.4. Hollows are present within Balzac.

Views

Mariner 10 image 0000214.png, Mariner 10 image with Balzac in upper right Balzac crater EN0227471829M EN0227471831M.jpg, MESSENGER mosaic Balzac crater MESSENGER WAC IGF to RGB.jpg, Approximate color image of Balzac crater Balzac crater EN0262546208M.jpg, Oblique view of northern Balzac

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