Montes Teneriffe
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Montes Teneriffe
(current [/IAU IAU] spelling; originally Teneriffe Mountains)
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Lat: 47.1°N, Long: 11.8°W, Diam: 182 km, Height: 1.45 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2011 Rükl: 11] |
Table of Contents
[#Montes Teneriffe Montes Teneriffe]
[#Montes Teneriffe-Images Images]
[#Montes Teneriffe-Maps Maps]
[#Montes Teneriffe-Description Description]
[#Montes Teneriffe-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Montes Teneriffe-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Montes Teneriffe-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Montes Teneriffe-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Montes Teneriffe-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Montes Teneriffe-Bibliography Bibliography]
Mario Weigand [/Plato Plato] is in the upper right corner with brightly lit [/Mons%20Pico Mons Pico] in the lower right. The remaining peaks are part of Montes Teneriffe. Of those visible here, the "branching chain" in the center is presumably Birt and Lee's "Alta Vista", with the "isolated rock" to its upper left designated "Chajorra" and the one to its upper right (towards [/Plato Plato]) "Rambleta".
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 25A1) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) THE TENERIFFE MOUNTAINS.--On the north side of the [/Mare%20Imbrium Mare Imbrium], west of [/Plato Plato], there is a beautiful narrow range of bright outlying heights, which include many isolated objects of considerable altitude, one of the loftiest rising about 8,000 feet.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Viscardy, 1985: 1.45 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 1.88 km
- Montes Teneriffe Epsilon (long. -14.577°, lat. 47.817°) rises between 2000m and 2300m above the mare ([/Boint%2C%202001 Boint, 2001]).
- Measurements and profiles of the Montes Teneriffe were [/selenologyspring07a published] by Steve Boint in the Spring 2007 issue of Selenology: Journal of the American Lunar Society. - fatastronomer fatastronomer
Nomenclature
- Named after the terrestrial island (note that the lunar spelling differs from the terrestrial one by having two "f's").
- This feature was named, jointly with [/Piazzi%20Smyth Piazzi Smyth], in honor of that astronomer's experiments there testing Newton's hypothesis that the deleterious effects of the Earth's atmosphere could be lessened by observing from the tops of high mountains: "([/Piazzi%20Smyth Piazzi Smyth]) is almost the only crater in a somewhat irregular line of detached rocks which are designated the Teneriffe Mountains, the principal of which is the isolated rock "[/Mons%20Pico Pico]" named by [/Johann%20Schr%C3%B6ter Schröter]." (Lee, 1864)
- This feature is Catalog number 1111 in Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List] where it is noted that it was named only in [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison, 1876]. In [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] the name is attributed to [/Birt Birt].
- The name was Latinized to Montes Teneriffe in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIIB 1964].
- The modern IAU name apparently encompasses a region less extensive than the one envisioned by Birt and Lee, who included in it the modern [/Mons%20Piton Mons Piton].
- Lee (1864) also suggested naming the individual peaks (note the change, not corrected for in the quote, in [/IAU%20directions lunar directions] since this was written): "These mountains are each designated by a Teneriffian appellation. A fine rock, equal to "[/Mons%20Pico Pico]," and westward of "[/Piazzi%20Smyth Piazzi Smyth]," is called "[/Mons%20Piton Piton]"; those south and north of "[/Mons%20Pico Pico]," "Guajara" and "Rambleta"; a fine branching chain east of "Rambleta," "Alta Vista"; and a rock N.E. of "Rambleta," "Chajorra." "
- [/Birt Birt] (1864) gives the name Petora, but omits Piton. Since [/Piazzi%20Smyth Piazzi Smyth] is explained there as "a small crater near [/Kirch Kirch], it is between Petora and Guajara" it sounds like Birt is using Petora as an alternative spelling for Lee's Piton.
- Note: Piton, Alta Vista, Chajorra, Guajara, and Rambleta all figure prominently in Piazzi Smyth's book. There does not appear to be any mention of Petora or the earlier name Pico, however in his book [/Johann%20Schr%C3%B6ter Johann Schröter] repeatedly compares his [/Mons%20Pico Pico] to the "Pico aus Tenerifa," so it is presumably a reference to what Piazzi Smyth calls "the Peak of Teneriffe" (the modern Teide?). - JimMosher JimMosher
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
- Birt, W. R. Recently named Lunar Craters. Astronomische Nachrichten, volume 61, p.213 (1864)
- [/Lee Lee], J. 1864. "On the Lunar "Mare Smythii," the walled Plain "Rosse," the "Percy Mountains," and the newly named Craters, "Phillips," "Wrottesley," "Chevallier," and "Piazzi Smyth." Report of the [/British%20Association British Association] for the Advancement of Science 1863 Meeting. Notices Section (at end), pp. 7-9.
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