Promontorium Laplace
Annotated Sinus Iridum by LRO; Promontorium Laplace is labeled at upper-right.
Promontorium Laplace is a raised mountainous cape situated at the end of Montes Jura in Mare Imbrium on the near side of the Moon. Its selenographic coordinates are 46.0° N, 26.0° W and it is 2600 meters high. It forms the northeast boundary of the bay of Sinus Iridum.
It is named after Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace, an 18th-century French astronomer, mathematician, and physicist.
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