Friday Fact!

Author, translator, and theatre manager Frances Brooke (1724-1789) has a crater on Venus named after her. ‘Brooke’ has a diameter of 22.9 km, and is located at 48.4°N 63.4°W.

Other craters on Venus are named after poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, journalist Nellie Bly, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn, and Anne Boleyn, so she’s in good company.

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