Haret (on older maps: Spiru Haret)

Lat: 58.78°S, Long: 176.17°W, Diam: 29.77 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside)

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Named for Spiru Haret (February 15, 1851 – December 17, 1912), a Romanian mathematician and astronomer of Armenian descent. He made a fundamental contribution to the n-body problem in celestial mechanics by proving that using a third degree approximation for the disturbing forces implies instability of the major axes of the orbits, and by introducing the concept of secular perturbations in relation to this. Spiru Haret also founded the Astronomical observatory in Bucharest.
The name Spiru Haret (including the first name) was in the long list of farside names published by the IAU in Menzel, 1971, and published again in that form in IAU Transactions XVB (1973).
It was shortened to Haret at some unknown later time.