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[http://lpod.org/coppermine/albums/userpics/Mons%20Wolff_LO-IV-114H_LTVT.JPG [[Image:normal_Mons%20Wolff_LO-IV-114H_LTVT.JPG|external image normal_Mons%20Wolff_LO-IV-114H_LTVT.JPG]]]<br /> ''[http://lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-2529 LO-IV-114H]'' The IAU's '''Mons Wolff''' is the triangular area just above center. To its immediate right (below the craterlet '''[[Wallace|Wallace]] C''') is the elongated peak formerly known as [[Mons%20Serao|Mons Serao]].<br /> <br />  
<div style="margin-left: 1em">[#Mount Wolff Mount Wolff]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Mount Wolff-Images Images]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Mount Wolff-Maps Maps]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Mount Wolff-Description Description]</div><div style="margin-left: 3em">[#Mount Wolff-Description-Elger Elger]</div><div style="margin-left: 3em">[#Mount Wolff-Description-Wikipedia Wikipedia]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Mount Wolff-Additional Information Additional Information]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Mount Wolff-Nomenclature Nomenclature]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Mount Wolff-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]</div><div style="margin-left: 2em">[#Mount Wolff-Bibliography Bibliography]</div></div>[http://lpod.org/coppermine/albums/userpics/Mons%20Wolff_LO-IV-114H_LTVT.JPG [[Image:normal_Mons%20Wolff_LO-IV-114H_LTVT.JPG|external image normal_Mons%20Wolff_LO-IV-114H_LTVT.JPG]]]<br /> ''[http://lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-2529 LO-IV-114H]'' The IAU's '''Mons Wolff''' is the triangular area just above center. To its immediate right (below the craterlet '''[[Wallace|Wallace]] C''') is the elongated peak formerly known as [[Mons%20Serao|Mons Serao]].<br /> <br />  
 
 
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[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Mons%20Wolff LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Mons%20Wolff%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Wolff Apollo Images]<br /> <br />  
 
[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Mons%20Wolff LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Mons%20Wolff%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Wolff Apollo Images]<br /> <br />  
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* In [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunarorbiter/frame/?4114 LO-IV-114H], only a scarp, about 1200 m tall, at the foot of the mountain, is casting a shadow. <span class="membersnap">- Jim Mosher</span>
 
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Revision as of 17:39, 15 April 2018

Mount Wolff

(unofficial name; current IAU name: Mons Wolff, formerly Wolf (Mt))

Lat: 16.98°N, Long: 6.72°W, Diam: 32.87 km, Height: 3.5 km, Rükl: 21

external image normal_Mons%20Wolff_LO-IV-114H_LTVT.JPG
LO-IV-114H The IAU's Mons Wolff is the triangular area just above center. To its immediate right (below the craterlet Wallace C) is the elongated peak formerly known as Mons Serao.

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

(LAC zone 41D4) LAC map Geologic map LM map

Description


Elger

(IAU Directions) MOUNT WOLF.--A great square-shaped mountain mass, near the S.W. extremity of the Apennines, in N. lat. 17 deg., W. long. 9 deg., the loftiest peak rising to nearly 12,000 feet above the Mare Imbrium.

Wikipedia

Mons Wolff

Additional Information

  • IAU page: Mons Wolff
  • Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
    • Viscardy, 1985: 3.5 km
    • Cherrington, 1969: 1.7 km
  • In LO-IV-114H, only a scarp, about 1200 m tall, at the foot of the mountain, is casting a shadow. - Jim Mosher


Nomenclature

  • Named for Baron Christian von Wolff (1679-1754), a German philosopher.
  • According to Whitaker (p. 218), this name was introduced by Schröter, who himself found it on a list of names prepared by Hell, where it appeared in the form Wolffius Freiherr, and was used for a different formation (p. 93).
  • The original IAU spelling, following Mädler, was Wolf. Mädler's "error" was corrected to Mt. Wolff in Table III of Kuiper's Photographic Lunar Atlas, which was approved by the IAU in 1961. The name was presumably latinized to Mons Wolff in 1964, although it is not specifically mentioned in IAU Transactions XIIB.


LPOD Articles


Bibliography




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