Bennett_Hill_(lunar_mountain)

Bennett Hill (lunar mountain)

Bennett Hill (lunar mountain)

Mountain on the Moon

Bennett Hill is a feature on Earth's Moon, a mountain in the Hadley–Apennine region. Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin landed the Lunar Module Falcon about 27 kilometers (17 mi) east of it in 1971, on the Apollo 15 mission, but they did not visit it. They could see it on the western horizon from nearly everywhere they went. The peak rises approximately 900 meters (3,000 ft) above the surrounding plain, known as Palus Putredinis.

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Bennett Hill on the horizon from the lunar surface near Hadley Rille. Jim Irwin is at the rover in the foreground.

The astronauts named the feature after NASA trajectory designer Floyd Bennett.[1] The name is informal and not recognized by the IAU, but the name is used in the scientific literature, such as the Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report.[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    Post-landing Activities, Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Journal
  2. [2]
    Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report Archived 2018-05-30 at the Wayback Machine (NASA SP-289), 1972.
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