Dorsa Burnet are

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s at in Oceanus Procellarum on the

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. They are about 194 km long and were named after

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by the

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in 1976.Dorsa Burnet
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) The dorsa draw near the southwest end of the

Montes Agricola Montes Agricola is an elongated range of mountains near the eastern edge of the central Oceanus Procellarum lunar mare. It lies just to the northwest of a plateau containing the craters Herodotus and Aristarchus. The selenographic coordinates o ...

, and curve around the western Aristarchus plateau. The craters Schiaparelli, Golgi, and

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lie to the west.

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