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A fact from Tooting (crater) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 May 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Tooting impact crater on Mars was named after the London suburb of the same name because the discoverer "thought [his] mum and brother would get a kick out of having their home town paired with a land form on Mars"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/May.

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Unverifiable statement in the introduction

The following statement cannot be verified and doesn't cite any source: "It was identified by planetary geologist Peter Mouginis-Mark in September 2004" Tooting is a large impact crater imaged much earlier than 2004 by Viking, as correctly shown later in the article. It's very unlikely that such a prominent impact crater hasn't been noticed until 2004.