Mont Blanc (Mondberg)
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| position | 45.37 ° N , 0.48 ° E | |
| diameter | 22 km | |
| See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature | ||
At 3.6 km, Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in the Montes Alpes on the front of the Earth's moon . It is named after the earthly Mont Blanc . The lunar Alps limit the Mare Imbrium on their southwestern side .
Mont Blanc is one of the few lunar mountains whose name was not later Latinized, but was adopted by the IAU in 1935 in the form introduced by Johann Hieronymus Schroeter . The spelling of Mons Blanc is therefore wrong.
See also
literature
- Ewen A. Whitaker: Mapping and Naming the Moon. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-54414-6 , p. 218
Web links
- Mont Blanc on the-moon-Wiki