Mons Wolff
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Mount Wolff
(unofficial name; current IAU name: Mons Wolff, formerly Wolf (Mt))
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Lat: 16.98°N, Long: 6.72°W, Diam: 32.87 km, Height: 3.5 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2021 Rükl: 21] |
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[#Mount Wolff Mount Wolff]
[#Mount Wolff-Images Images]
[#Mount Wolff-Maps Maps]
[#Mount Wolff-Description Description]
[#Mount Wolff-Description-Elger Elger]
[#Mount Wolff-Description-Wikipedia Wikipedia]
[#Mount Wolff-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Mount Wolff-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Mount Wolff-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Mount Wolff-Bibliography Bibliography]
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].
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 41D4) LAC map Geologic map LM map
Description
Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) MOUNT WOLF.--A great square-shaped mountain mass, near the S.W. extremity of the [/Montes%20Apenninus Apennines], in N. lat. 17 deg., W. long. 9 deg., the loftiest peak rising to nearly 12,000 feet above the [/Mare%20Imbrium Mare Imbrium].
Wikipedia
Additional Information
- IAU page: Mons Wolff
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths 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. - JimMosher JimMosher
Nomenclature
- Named for Baron Christian von Wolff (1679-1754), a German philosopher.
- According to [/Whitaker Whitaker] (p. 218), this name was introduced by [/Schr%C3%B6ter Schröter], who himself found it on a list of names prepared by [/Hell Hell], where it appeared in the form Wolffius Freiherr, and was used for a different formation (p. 93).
- The original [/IAU IAU] spelling, following Mädler, was Wolf. Mädler's "error" was corrected to Mt. Wolff in [/PLA%20Table%20III Table III] of Kuiper's [/Photographic%20Lunar%20Atlas 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%20Transactions%20XIIB IAU Transactions XIIB].
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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