Dorsum Nicol
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| Dorsum Nicol with Dorsa Lister above and Rimae Plinius below ( Apollo 17 image) | ||
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| position | 18.32 ° N , 22.66 ° E | |
| diameter | 44 km | |
| See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature | ||
The Dorsum Nicol is a dorsum on the Earth's moon in the Mare Serenitatis plain . It runs from a point southwest of the Brackett crater , where it meets the Rimae Pliny , over a distance of about 50 kilometers to the southernmost point in the arch of the Dorsa Lister .
It was named after the Scottish physicist William Nicol at the 1976 IAU at its General Assembly in Grenoble .
Web links
- Dorsum Nicol on The-Moon Wiki