Author Raditladi honoured on Mercury

PALAPYE: It may be old news but few Batswana know that one of the country's best-known authors, the late Leetile Disang Raditladi, better known as LD Raditladi, has an extraterrestrial feature named after him.

According to Wikipedia, Raditladi Basin is a large peak ring impact crater on Planet Mercury measuring 263km in diameter that was named after Raditladi on April 8, 2008.

Inside its peak ring, there is a system of concentric extensional troughs that are rare surface features on Mercury.

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