Dorothy (Venusian crater)
{{short description|Crater in Venus}}
{{For|the charonian crater|Dorothy (Charonian crater)}}
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Dorothy Crater is an impact crater on Venus.
The names for small craters on Venus (with a diameter less than {{val|20|u=km}}) are chosen from common female names.{{cite web |title=Dorothy |url=http://wenamethestars.inkleby.com/feature/1584 |website=We Name The Stars |accessdate=10 April 2020 |language=en}} {{em|Dorothy}} is an English form of a Greek first name, and the crater was officially designated by the IAU in 1997. The crater is east of Tamfana Corona, and south of Seoritsu Farra.{{cite map |author = International Astronomical Union|title = Venus V-44 Kaiwan Fluctus Nomenclature |date = June 8, 2012 |url = https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Venus/Nomenclature/v44_comp |scale = |series = |publisher = USGS Astrogeology Science Center|cartography = |location = |access-date = April 10, 2020 |archive-url = |archive-date = }}
Like many impact craters on Venus, Dorothy has been flooded and buried by lava flows.{{Cite journal|last1=Collins|first1=G. C.|last2=Head|first2=J. W.|last3=Basilevsky|first3=A. T.|last4=Ivanov|first4=M. A.|date=1999-10-25|title=Evidence for rapid regional plains emplacement on Venus from the population of volcanically embayed impact craters|journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets|language=en|volume=104|issue=E10|pages=24121–24139|doi=10.1029/1999JE001041|doi-access=}}