L'Engle is a crater on Mercury, located near the south pole. Its name was adopted by the

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(IAU) in 2013, after American author

Madeleine L'Engle Madeleine L'Engle (; November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including ''A Wrinkle in Time'' and its sequels: '' A Wind in the Door'', '' A Swiftly Tilting Planet'' ...

. L'Engle has a crater floor that is in permanent shadow.ILLUMINATION MAP OF MERCURY'S SOUTH POLE
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington So do nearby craters Chao Meng-Fu (at the south pole),

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, and Hurley.

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Impact craters on Mercury {{Mercury-planet-stub