Rupes Boris

Rupes Boris is a short fault or ridge in the lunar surface that is located in the northwestern quadrant of the Moon's near side, within Mare Imbrium. Its name was adopted in 1985 by the International Astronomical Union, and was taken from the tiny nearby crater Boris.[1] The selenographic coordinates of this feature are 30.5°N 33.5°W / 30.5; -33.5, and it has a length of just 4 km.

Rupes Boris is on the left of the photo featuring Boris crater

It has been proposed that Rupes Boris is not actually a lunar escarpment, but may be a ridge of ejecta from the nearby crater Delisle.[2]

References

Batson, Raymond M.; Russell, Joel F., eds. (1995). "Gazetteer of planetary nomenclature 1994" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey bulletin (2129): 95. ISSN 8755-531X.
"Rupes Boris". The-Moon Wiki. Retrieved 2012-02-03.

External links

Media related to Rupes Boris at Wikimedia Commons
"Boris area". Lunar Photo of the Day. Observing the Sky. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2012-02-03.

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[1] Batson, Raymond M.; Russell, Joel F., eds. (1995). "Gazetteer of planetary nomenclature 1994" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey bulletin (2129): 95. ISSN 8755-531X.

[2] "Rupes Boris". The-Moon Wiki. Retrieved 2012-02-03.