Mons Maraldi

(current [/IAU IAU] name; former IAU name(?): Mons Maraldi Gamma; before that: Maraldi Gamma)

Lat: 20.3°N, Long: 35.3°E, Diam: 15 km, Height: km, Rükl: 25

Named after the nearby crater ([/Maraldi Maraldi]).
According to Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List] (where it is catalog #278), this feature was named [/Maraldi Maraldi] Gamma by [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison], and it was introduced into the original IAU nomenclature of [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] in that form.
The system of Greek lettered peaks was dropped in 1973 ([/IAU%20Transactions%20XVB IAU Transactions XVB]), to be replaced by new names using the Latin prefix [/mons mons].
[/IAU%20Transactions%20XVIB IAU Transactions XVIB] (1976) made a special exception for the present peak, which was to be known by the hybrid name Mons Maraldi Gamma. This is in a section of recommendations attributed by Whitaker to the [/LPACC LPACC]. Later in the same transactions the name is "corrected" to Mons Maraldi (without the Gamma), the name under which it is currently known. - JimMosher JimMosher

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