{"id":60699,"date":"2012-08-11T01:49:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T06:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=60699"},"modified":"2012-08-11T01:49:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T06:49:13","slug":"astronomical-union-names-mercury-crater-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/08\/11\/60699-astronomical-union-names-mercury-crater-tolkien\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomical union names Mercury crater &#8220;Tolkien&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/5b\/CW0131775256F_Kuiper_Crater.png\/220px-CW0131775256F_Kuiper_Crater.png\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" class=\"no-lazyload\"> The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved a proposal to assign names to nine impact craters on the planet Mercury. <\/p>\n<p>What does this have to do with Tolkien fandom? 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