Dorsa Sorby
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| Dorsa Sorby (top left, right below Sulpicius Gallus; LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 18.65 ° N , 13.7 ° E | |
| diameter | 76 km | |
| Named after | Henry Clifton Sorby | |
| See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature | ||
The Dorsa Sorby is a group of Dorsa on the Earth's moon in the plain of the Mare Serenitatis , southeast of the Sulpicius Gallus crater about 80 km in a southeast direction, running parallel to the Montes Haemus .
It was named in 1976 after the British geoscientist Henry Clifton Sorby . The middle coordinates are 19 ° N / 14 ° E.
See also
Web links
- Dorsa Sorby on The-Moon Wiki
Sulpicius Gallus and Dorsa Sorby (photo from Apollo 17 )