Mons Delisle

Mons Delisle

(formerly [/Delisle Delisle] Beta)

Lat: 29.5°N, Long: 35.8°W, Diam: 30 km, Height: 1.0 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2019 Rükl: 19]

Table of Contents

[#Mons Delisle Mons Delisle]

[#Mons Delisle-Images Images]

[#Mons Delisle-Maps Maps]

[#Mons Delisle-Description Description]

[#Mons Delisle-Description: Elger Description: Elger]

[#Mons Delisle-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]

[#Mons Delisle-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Mons Delisle-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Mons Delisle-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Mons Delisle-Bibliography Bibliography]

Apollo 15 AS15-M2332 Mons Delisle is the club-shaped mountain. The crater in the upper right is [/Delisle Delisle], and a portion of [/Rima%20Diophantus Rima Diophantus] is visible at bottom right.
Note the curious Bottle/ Guitar near the photograph's lower left corner (halfway between Mons Delisle and Fedorov). - DannyCaes DannyCaes Oct 17, 2015

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images (no match found for 'Mons Delisle', see lower part of Apollo photographs for Delisle, at Delisle Beta and Delisle Beta Prominence).

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 39B1) LAC map Geologic map LM map LTO map

Description

Description: Elger

([/IAU%20directions IAU directions]) Delisle Beta. A curious club-shaped mountain on the S.W. of [/Delisle Delisle], nearly 4,000 feet in height.

Description: Wikipedia

Mons Delisle

Additional Information

• From the shadows in AS15-M-2332, the spine of Mons Delisle is around 600-1000 m tall.
• Measures on LRO QuickMap show highest part of ridge and of broader mass slightly more than 1 km high.

Nomenclature

• Named after the nearby crater. ([/Delisle Delisle])
• In the original [/IAU%20Nomenclature IAU Nomenclature] of [/Blagg%20and%20M%C3%BCller Blagg and Müller] (1935), this peak was called [/Delisle Delisle] Beta, a name which was retained in the [/System%20of%20Lunar%20Craters System of Lunar Craters] (although it does not appear on LAC 39.
• In 1973 the [/IAU IAU] dropped all the former Greek-lettered peak names, preserving only a very few with new latinized names ([/IAU%20Transactions%20XVB IAU Transactions XVB]).
• The name Mons Delisle, presumbably meant to reinstate the feature formerly known as [/Delisle Delisle] Beta, was not approved until 1985 ([/IAU%20Transactions%20XIXB IAU Transactions XIXB]).

The Baby

• Gerard Kuiper called this The Baby because, with a telescopic south up view and normal resolution, it looks like a big-headed child crawling southward (see image at right: Mons Delisle at a sun angle of about +0.6° from the east, as seen in Plate C22 of the [/Consolidated%20Lunar%20Atlas Consolidated Lunar Atlas]. Rotated so south is to the left and east up.)
• Danny Caes calls the northern part of Mons Delisle "a mermaid's lower half, above the water" or "Fish's Tail".
• In his informal 1953 tour of [/Mare%20Imbrium Mare Imbrium], [/Copeland%2C%201953 Leland Copeland] referred to Mons Delisle as the The Torch. Delisle Alpha (a peak to the northwest of Mons Delisle) was nicknamed The Triangle, while the elevation running from Mons Delisle to [/Diophantus Diophantus] was nicknamed The Wall. Research: Danny Caes.
• An interesting photograph of both Mons Delisle and crater [/Delisle Delisle] is included in Apollo Over The Moon: A View From Orbit, Chapter 6: Rimae (Part 2: Sinuous Rimae), Figure 199.
• I still need a nickname for the odd cluster of craterlets west of Mons Delisle (an interesting test-object for common and large telescopes!). - DannyCaes DannyCaes Jan 2, 2017

LPOD Articles

Dark Mare, Bright Rims
The Baby and the Skull

Bibliography

Harold Hill. [/A%20Portfolio%20of%20Lunar%20Drawings A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings], pages 72, 73.
 

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