Hawthorne is a crater on

Mercury Mercury commonly refers to: * Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun * Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg * Mercury (mythology), a Roman god Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to: Companies * Merc ...

. It has a diameter of 120 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the

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in 1979. Hawthorne is named for the American novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that t ...

, who lived from 1804 to 1864. The crater Hals is south of Hawthorne. To the northeast is

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was insp ...

, and to the northwest is Shelley. File:Hawthorne crater EN0262715541M.jpg, Another MESSENGER NAC image File:Hawthorne crater region MESSENGER WAC IGF to RGB.jpg, Approximate color image of the surface of Mercury. The prominent crater at right is Hawthorne. File:Michelangelo crater Hawthorne crater EW1026080636G.jpg, Oblique regional view with Hawthorne right of center and Michelangelo in right foreground

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