Ruby Peak
Ruby Peak | ||
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height | 1100 m | |
location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 82 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Rubin peak is about 1,100 meters high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains, it rises 18 km north of Russell Bluff in the center of the Carnegie Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2003 after that of the American astronomer Vera Rubin (1928–2016), whose work in 1978 confirmed that the universe consists predominantly of dark matter .
Web links
- Rubin peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rubin Peak on geographic.org (English)