5-518: Copland may refer to: Copland (crater) , on Mercury Copland (operating system) Copland (surname) Copland River in New Zealand 4532 Copland , an asteroid named after Aaron Copland Aaron Copland , American composer See also [ edit ] Copeland (disambiguation) Cop Land , a 1997 movie starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel Topics referred to by
10-425: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Copland (crater) Copland is an impact crater on Mercury . Its floor is flooded with volcanic smooth plains material, which could be related to the activity that formed the nearby bright vent known as Nathair Facula . Amateur astronomer Ronald Dantowitz and his colleagues Scott Teare and Marek Kozubal used
15-461: The Mt. Wilson 60-inch telescope in 1998 to observe a very bright feature on this portion of Mercury's surface, and they assumed that the bright feature was an impact crater. Mr. Dantowitz expressed his wish that the crater be named "Copland" (after American composer Aaron Copland ) once better images of the area were obtained from spacecraft. Surprisingly, MESSENGER images from Mercury flyby 3 revealed that
20-411: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Copland . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Copland&oldid=1078907692 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
25-439: The small bright feature, seen at the left edge of this image and now known as Nathair Facula , is not an impact crater but more closely resembles a volcanic vent . No convention for naming volcanic vents on Mercury had yet been adopted, because none were identified prior to MESSENGER ' s first Mercury flyby. A MESSENGER team member corresponded with Mr. Dantowitz and suggested that the name Copland be proposed instead for
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