Promontorium Taenarium
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Promontorium Taenarium
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Lat: 19.0°S, Long: 8.0°W, Diam: 70 km, Depth: 0.7 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2054 Rükl: 54] |
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[#Promontorium Taenarium Promontorium Taenarium]
[#Promontorium Taenarium-Images Images]
[#Promontorium Taenarium-Maps Maps]
[#Promontorium Taenarium-Description Description]
[#Promontorium Taenarium-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Promontorium Taenarium-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Promontorium Taenarium-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Promontorium Taenarium-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Promontorium Taenarium-Bibliography Bibliography]
LO-IV-113H Promontorium Taenarium is the western part of the hilly peninsula sweeping across the frame from the east. The small circular craters just west of the headland are 4-km [/Lassell Lassell] S (in the north) and 5-km [/Thebit Thebit] D (in the south). [/Thebit Thebit] D is at the northern end of the “Straight Wall” ([/Rupes%20Recta Rupes Recta]), visible as the dark gash running to the lower margin. The channel to its west is a part of the [/Rima%20Birt Rima Birt].
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 95A1) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Viscardy, 1985: 0.7 km
Nomenclature
- Taenarium is the ancient name for the cape at the southern tip of mainland Greece, now known as Matapan or Tainaron.
- According to [/Whitaker Whitaker] (p. 208), the name Promontorium Taenarium was used by [/Hevelius Hevelius], but for a completely different feature: the bright point at [/Guericke Guericke] B.
- The name was apparently first associated with the modern feature by Tobias [/T.%20Mayer Mayer], who spelled it without the "T". Mayer's spelling was copied by [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler], and adopted into the original [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU nomenclature] by [/Blagg%20and%20M%C3%BCller Blagg and Müller] (1935).
- The spelling was corrected to its present form in [/PLA%20Table%20III Table III] of the [/Photographic%20Lunar%20Atlas Photographic Lunar Atlas], which was approved by the [/IAU IAU] in 1961.
- The hilly region east of Promontorium Taenarium is called the Taenarium range on Rand Mc.Nally's moonmap and also on the same moonmap in Patrick Moore's Atlas of the Universe (1983). Research Danny Caes.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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