Dorsum Cayeux
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Dorsum Cayeux is a wrinkle ridge at in Mare Fecunditatis
on the Moon
. It is 84 km long and was named after Lucien Cayeux
in 1976.
Mare Fecunditatis
Mare Fecunditatis is a lunar mare which is 840 km in diameter. The Fecuditatis basin formed in the Pre-Nectarian epoch, while the basin material surrounding the mare is of the...
on the Moon
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...
. It is 84 km long and was named after Lucien Cayeux
Lucien Cayeux
Lucien Cayeux was a French sedimentary petrographer.In 1902 joined the l'Ecole des Mines and become a professor of geology. In 1912 he was named as professor of geology at the Collège de France...
in 1976.