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 Coordinates: 82 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E

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 .

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