Montes Harbinger

Montes Harbinger
Montes Harbinger
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Highest point
Listing	Lunar mountains
Coordinates	26°54′N 41°18′W / 26.9°N 41.3°W
Geography
Location	the Moon

Montes Harbinger is an isolated cluster of lunar mountains at the western edge of the Mare Imbrium basin.^[1]

The mountains consist of four primary ridges plus several smaller hills, each forming a small rise surrounded by the lunar mare. The cluster is centered at selenographic coordinates 26.9° N, 41.3° W, within a diameter of 93 km.^[2] The formation is so-named because the peaks serve as the harbingers of dawn on the crater Aristarchus,^[1] located to the southwest.

The flooded crater Prinz is located to the southwest.

References

^ ^a ^b Rükl, Antonin; Richebé, Martine; Becker, Jean-Marc (1993). Gründ (ed.). Atlas de la Lune (in French). Paris. pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-2-700-01554-6. OCLC 301684184. bnf=FRBNF40580052.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Montes Harbinger". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.

[Atlas_Gründ_p.64-65-1] Rükl, Antonin; Richebé, Martine; Becker, Jean-Marc (1993). Gründ (ed.). Atlas de la Lune (in French). Paris. pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-2-700-01554-6. OCLC 301684184. bnf=FRBNF40580052.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[2] "Montes Harbinger". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.

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