Rudyard Kipling
of Westminster Abbey.
In 2010, the International Astronomical Union approved that a crater on the planet Mercury would be
named after Kipling - one of ten newly discovered impact craters observed by the MESSENGER
spacecraft in 2008-9.
Many older editions of Rudyard Kipling's books have a swastika printed on their covers associated
with a picture of an elephant carrying a lotus flower. Since the 1930s this has raised the possibility of
Kipling being mistaken for a Nazi-sympathiser, though the Nazi party did not adopt the swastika until
1920. Kipling's use of the swastika was based on the Indian sun symbol conferring good luck and
well-being; the word derived from the Sanskrit word svastika meaning "auspicious object". He used the
swastika symbol in both right- and left-facing orientations, and it was in general use at the time. Even
before the Nazis came to power, Kipling ordered the engraver to remove it from the printing block
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