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400:Cocks, Elijah E.; Cocks, Josiah C. (1995).
198:. Peirce lies to the north of the craters
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558:(6th revised ed.). Dover.
363:Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature
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508:. Cambridge University Press.
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