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Planetary Names: Saxum, saxa: Thorondor Saxum on Bennu

Thorondor Saxum

Feature Name	Thorondor Saxum
Clean Name	Thorondor Saxum
Feature ID	15905
Target	Bennu
Feature Type	Saxum, saxa
Coordinate System	Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360
Control Network	UNKNOWN
Northernmost Latitude	-44.36 °
Southernmost Latitude	-51.51 °
Easternmost Longitude	55.64 °
Westernmost Longitude	34.56 °
Diameter	0.06 km
Center Latitude	-47.94 °
Center Longitude	45.10 °
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Continent	Europe
Ethnic/Cultural Group or Country	England
Quad	-
Reference	[568] - The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1954.
Approval Status	Adopted by IAU
Approval Date	Mar 26, 2020
Origin	King of the Eagles in the Middle-earth, the fictional setting in fantasy novels by English author J.R.R. Tolkien, the greatest of all eagles, with a wingspan of 55 m (approximately as this boulder).
Last Updated	Mar 27, 2020 12:11 PM

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