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New Lunar Mountain ridge discovered
On 2009 November 14 Maurice Collins discovered a previously unknown mountain ridge on the Moon east of Mare Imbrium using the Kaguya 3D Moon globe https://darts.isas.jaxa.jp/planet/3dmoon_e/index_e.html
The ridge has not been formally named, but he has nicknamed it "Shannen Ridge" after his daughter Shannen.
The below is an article on the discovery of the ridge that was published in the ALPO Strolling Astronomer Journal, Jan 2010.
LRO image of the top of Shannen Ridge
The Ridge discovery was also mentioned in Chuck Woods Exploring the Moon column in Sky & Telescope: Lunar Missions & Amateurs, May 2010 page 51-52. It is also in the Australian Sky & Telescope magazine July 2010 issue.
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