Mons Piton
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Mons Piton
(current IAU name; former IAU name: Piton)
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Lat: 40.6°N, Long: 1.1°W, Diam: 25 km, Height: 2.25 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2012 Rükl: 12] |
Table of Contents
[#Mons Piton Mons Piton]
[#Mons Piton-Images Images]
[#Mons Piton-Maps Maps]
[#Mons Piton-Description Description]
[#Mons Piton-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Mons Piton-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Mons Piton-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Mons Piton-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Mons Piton-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Mons Piton-Bibliography Bibliography]
Mario Weigand Mons Piton is the shadow-casting peak at the center. Below it are 6-km Piton A and 5-km Piton B. The 13-km crater in the upper left corner is [/Piazzi%20Smyth Piazzi Smyth] and the bright feature in the extreme upper right corner is the Sun striking the western slopes of [/Promontorium%20Deville Promontorium Deville]. This view also includes two other formerly-named peaks: [/Piazzi%20Smyth Piazzi Smyth] Alpha (along the upper margin, just to the left of center) and [/Piton%20Gamma Piton Gamma] (looking like the top of a dog bone in the lower left). Both these names were dropped by the IAU in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XVB 1973].
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
- Although there seems to be nothing in the LPI's Apollo Images Search for Mons Piton, there ARE orbital Apollo photographs of this peak! For example: Fairchild-Metric image AS15-M-1538 which shows this peak a little "above" (westward) of the curved horizon's centre! (north-northwest of [/Aristillus Aristillus]). - DannyCaes DannyCaes Jan 13, 2008
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 25B4) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) PITON.--A bright isolated mountain 7,000 feet high, in N. lat. 1 deg., W. long. 1 deg.
Note: the strange latitude given here is a faithful transcription of what appears on p. 156 of [/Elger%2C%201895 Elger]. Since the meaning of Piton has not changed, "N. lat. 1 deg" appears to be a misprint for "N. lat. 41 deg"
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Viscardy, 1985: 2.25 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 2.49 km
Nomenclature
- Named from Mt. Piton on the Tenerife Islands.
- The name Piton, for this feature, was introduced by [/Lee Lee] (1864), as part of his naming of the lunar [/Montes%20Teneriffe Teneriffe Mountains], of which he regarded this as a part. [/Birt Birt] seems to have suggested the alternated spelling Petora.
- According to Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List], this feature (catalog #1128) was known as [/Mons%20Pico Pico] A to Schmidt and [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler], and as Piton to [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison].
- The original IAU nomenclature of [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] adopted Neison's name for the peak as a whole, and also his somewhat arbitrary subdivision of it into two separately named parts: Pico Alpha (catalog #1129) for the southern part; and Pico Beta (catalog #1130) for the northern and western parts, which Neison saw as a kind of arm extending out of Pico Alpha. In addition, an isolated peak to the south that been known to all three of Blagg's authorities as [/Kirch Kirch] Gamma was re-assigned to Piton and adopted into the IAU nomenclature as [/Piton%20Gamma Piton Gamma] (catalog #1136). - JimMosher JimMosher
- The name was Latinized to Mons Piton in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIB 1961]. - JimMosher JimMosher
- The subdivision of Mons Piton into Piton Alpha and Piton Beta seems to have been dropped in the [/System%20of%20Lunar%20Craters System of Lunar Craters] (ca. 1963). - JimMosher JimMosher
- The remaining Greek-lettered peak associated with Mons Piton ([/Piton%20Gamma Piton Gamma]) was discontinued in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XVB 1973], along with nearly all other Greek-lettered designations. - JimMosher JimMosher
LPOD Articles
Peaky Piton
40 years later (drawing and photograph of the Piton / Piazzi Smyth region, by Leo Aerts).
Mount Molar (Leo Aerts).
Bibliography
Harold Hill. [/A%20Portfolio%20of%20Lunar%20Drawings A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings], pages 62, 63, 64.
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