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Mare Serenitatis / Mare Tranquillitatis

Promontorium Archerusia

A lunar headland marking the border between Mare Serenitatis and Mare Tranquillitatis.

Feature Profile & Selenographic Data

Feature type
feature
Coordinates
16.80° N · 21.94° E
Diameter
11.21 km
IAU approval
1961/01/01 00:00:00
LAC quadrangle
LAC-42 · Mare Serenitatis

Geological Chronicle

Promontorium Archerusia is a headland situated on the near side of the Moon at coordinates 16.8043°N, 21.9434°E. Spanning a diameter of 11.21 kilometers, the promontory forms a boundary separating Mare Serenitatis from Mare Tranquillitatis.

The feature was named by Johannes Hevelius after Cape Acherusia, a headland on the Black Sea near Heraclea in ancient Bithynia, located in present-day Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey. The official lunar designation preserves a misspelling, rendering Acherusia as Archerusia

Scientific Sources & References

Name Origin

Named from cape on the Black Sea.

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