Rubin Peak

Mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica

Rubin Peak (82°10′S 161°9′E﻿ / ﻿82.167°S 161.150°E﻿ / -82.167; 161.150) is a prominent rock summit rising to over 1100 m in the central part of Carnegie Range, Churchill Mountains. The peak is 11 nautical miles (20 km) north of Russell Bluff. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Vera Rubin, observational astronomer, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1965–2002; with Carnegie Institution co-worker Kent Ford, Rubin confirmed that most of the universe consists of dark matter, 1978.

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