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Promontorium Laplace
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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 46.8° N, 25.5° 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.[1]
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