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Feature ID	Feature Name	Clean Feature Name	Target	Diameter	Center Latitude	Center Longitude	Northernmost Latitude	Southernmost Latitude	Easternmost Longitude	Westernmost Longitude	Coordinate System	Continent	Ethnicity	Feature Type	Feature Type Code	Quad	Approval Status	Approval Date	Reference	Origin	Additional Info	Last Updated
16265	Carillon Saxum	Carillon Saxum	Didymos	0.0850	-59.00	311.70	-	-	-	-	Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360	Europe	Belgium	Saxum, saxa	SA	-	Approved	Nov 14, 2023	[777]	Belgium, Netherlands, France; a percussion instrument of at least 23 cast bronze bells in fixed suspension.		Dec 27, 2024
16266	Gong Saxum	Gong Saxum	Didymos	0.0220	5.80	1.90	-	-	-	-	Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360	Asia	Indonesia	Saxum, saxa	SA	-	Approved	Nov 14, 2023	[778]	Indonesian name of a percussion musical instrument popular in East and South East Asia, a circular metal disk with a definite or indefinite pitch, which is hung vertically and hit in the center by a soft beater; originated in Ancient China.	Gong Saxum defines 1.9E longitude to be the prime meridian anchor for the Didymos longitude system. November 14, 2024: correction made to center latitude value (changed from 58.0N to 5.8N).	Dec 27, 2024

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