Largest "classical" impact crater on Pluto

The impact crater Venetia Burney measures around 250 km across and is the largest "classical" (i.e., not infilled by volatiles) crater yet identified on Pluto. The crater is named for Venetia Burney, who proposed the name Pluto for the newly discovered planet when aged 11 in Oxford, UK. She suggested it to her father, Falconer Madan, who was the librarian at the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford. Madan forwarded the suggested name to British astronomer Herbert Hall Turner who, in turn, sent it on to colleagues at the Lowell Observatory. Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto, approved of the name Pluto owing to the first two letters seeming to stand for Percival Lowell, who had previously predicted Pluto’s existence.

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