Apennine Mts
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Montes Apenninus
(current [/IAU IAU] name; former IAU name: Apennines; informally: Apennine Mountains)
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Lat: 18.9°N, Long: 3.7°W, Diam: 401 km, Height: 5.4 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2022 Rükl: 22] |
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([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions])THE APENNINES.-- by far the most magnificent range on the visible surface, including as they do some 3000 peaks, and extending in an almost continuous curve of more than 400 miles in length from [/Mons%20Hadley Mount Hadley], on the north, to the fine ring-plain Eratosthenes, which forms a fitting termination, on the south. The great headland [/Mons%20Hadley Mount Hadley] rises more than 15,000 feet, while a neighbouring promontory on the south-west of it is fully 14,000 feet, and another, close by, is still higher above the Mare. [/Mons%20Huygens Mount Huygens], again, in N. lat. 20 deg., and the square-shaped mass [/Mons%20Wolff Mount Wolf], near the southern end of the chain, include peaks standing 18,000 and 12,000 feet respectively above the plain, to which their flanks descend with a steep declivity. The counterscarp of the [/Montes%20Apenninus Apennines], in places 160 miles in width from west to east, runs down to the [/Mare%20Vaporum Mare Vaporum] with a comparatively gentle inclination. It is everywhere traversed by winding valleys of a very intricate type, all trending towards the south-east, and includes some bright craters and mountain-rings.
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Additional Information
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Viscardy, 1985: 5.4 km
- A profile of the Apennines from south of the [/Apennine%20Bench%20Formation Apennine Bench] to north of [/Mons%20Wolff Mons Wolff] was produced by using [/LTVT LTVT] on an amateur photograph. (Boint 2008. "Measuring The Apennine Mountains And Rimae Archimedes [Area]", The Lunar Observer, Feb. 2008. p 4-5; or PDF download).- fatastronomer fatastronomer
- The official position and "diameter" for Montes Apenninus given in the [/IAU%20Planetary%20Gazetteer IAU Planetary Gazetteer] (and repeated at the top of this page) would have the range extending only from near [/Eratosthenes Eratosthenes] to slightly north of [/Mons%20Bradley Mons Bradley]. According to that definition, the region north of that, extending to [/Promontorium%20Fresnel Promontorium Fresnel], falls within the circle of [/Montes%20Haemus Montes Haemus]. However, the hand-labeled [/USGS%20Digital%20Atlas USGS Digital Atlas] nearside nomenclature map (which is supposed to document this nomenclature) follows the traditional system with Montes Apenninus being the entire range along the southeast shore of [/Mare%20Imbrium Mare Imbrium] and the name [/Montes%20Haemus Montes Haemus] being confined to a relatively minor extension along the southwest shore of [/Mare%20Serenitatis Mare Serenitatis]. The length of the traditional Montes Apenninus is closer to 580 km than to the value given in the Gazetteer. - JimMosher JimMosher Jan 7, 2008
Nomenclature
- Named after the terrestrial Apennines .
- Called Riphaeus by [/Gassendi Gassendi] in the late 1630s ([/Whitaker Whitaker], p. 33). The word riphaeus seems most connected with a species of moth from Madagascar; perhaps the Apennines reminded Gassendi of a wing from this moth - pure speculation! - tychocrater tychocrater Jul 19, 2007
- Note: As intriguing as this speculation may seem, [/Linn%C3%A9 Linnaeus] did not introduce his Latin system of animal names until 1735 and this particular moth does not appear to have received its modern name until1773, more than 100 years after Gassendi's death. Gassendi was more likely aware of the classical associations of this name with a mythical mountain range possibly inspired by the [/Montes%20Riphaeus Ural] range in Asia.
- According to [/Whitaker Whitaker] (p. 209), of the many names introduced by [/Hevelius Hevelius], Mons Apenninus is one of just ten that have survived into modern usage; and one of only four still used at the original location. However, it does not appear in Whitaker's list of names used by [/Riccioli Riccioli], so exactly who re-introduced into the mainstream lunar nomenclature (or if Riccioli used it) is unclear. - JimMosher JimMosher
- In the original [/IAU%20Nomenclature IAU Nomenclature] of [/Blagg%20and%20M%C3%BCller Blagg and Müller] (1935) the name was simply Apennines. It was Latinized in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIIB IAU Transactions XIIB] (1964).
LPOD Articles
Lunar Image of the Week (Apollo Image Archive, Arizona State University)
The Mighty Apennine Mountain Range (09/30/2008)
Lunar 100
[/Lunar%20100 L4]: Imbrium basin rim.
Bibliography
- Wood, C.A. Mar. 2000. The Apennine Bench. S&T March 2000 v99 p128
- Spudis, P. and J. W. Head (1977). Geology of the Imbrium Basin Apennine Mountains and relation to the Apollo 15 landing site. Proc. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 8th, 2785-2797.
- APOLLO OVER THE MOON; A VIEW FROM ORBIT, Chapter 3: The Terrae (Part 1), Figures 37 and 38.
- The unnamed peak at 23°30' North/ 1°30' East: AOTM, Chapter 3 (Part 1), Figure 42.
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