Sadī
MESSENGER NAC image
PlanetMercury
Coordinates79°14′S 51°16′W / 79.24°S 51.26°W / -79.24; -51.26
QuadrangleBach
Diameter66.54 km
EponymSaadi Shirazi
Sadī is right of center in this MESSENGER image. Li Ch'ing-Chao is at top center, and Roerich is in lower left.

Sadī is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976, after Persian poet Saadi Shirazi.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Sadī". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 23 May 2021.


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