Mons Agnes

Mons Agnes
Mons Agnes
position	18.6 °  N , 5.3 °  E Coordinates: 18 ° 36 '0 "  N , 5 ° 18' 0"  E
diameter	650 m
See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

The Mons Agnes is a mountain on the Earth's Moon , the crater Ina , with a diameter of about 0.65 kilometers. It got its name in 1979 after the Greek female name Agnes .

The name goes back to an originally unofficial name on sheet 41C3 / S1 of the Topophotomap map series of NASA , which was taken over by the IAU in 1979.

Mons Agnes and the small craters Ina , Dag and Osama ( Apollo 17 image)

See also

• List of the mountains and mountain ranges of the moon

Web links

• Mons Agnes on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topophotomap 41C3 / S1
2. ^ Excerpt from the Proceedings of the 16th General Assembly of the IAU (Grenoble 1976). In: Transactions of the IAU vol. XVIB, edited by D. Riedel, 1977