Dorsa Cato

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Slightly oblique view from Apollo 11, with north at the right. The crater in lower left is Messier B.

Dorsa Cato is a wrinkle ridge at Script error: No such module "Coordinates".Script error: No such module "Celestial object quadrangle". on the Moon. It is approximately 130 km long and was named after the ancient Roman senator and historian Cato the Elder in 1976 by the IAU.[1]

The dorsa are located north of the prominent Messier crater in Mare Fecunditatis.

References

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  1. Dorsa Cato, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)

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