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Promontorium Laplace
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
.