Vyasa (crater)
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Vyasa is a crater
Impact crater
In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...

 on Mercury
Mercury (planet)
Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 Earth days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three rotations about its axis for every two orbits...

. It is an ancient crater, overlain two much younger craters – Stravinsky
Stravinsky (crater)
Stravinsky is a crater on Mercury. It overlays the rim of the much older Vyasa crater....

 and Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Aleichem (crater)
Sholem Aleichem is a crater on Mercury, named after the Yiddish writer. The plains deposits filling the crater's interior have been deformed by linear ridges....

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