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Target: Bennu
Feature Type: Crater, craters

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Feature Name
Target
Diameter
Center Latitude
Center Longitude
Feature Type
Approval Date
Origin
Alicanto Bennu 0.0610 -0.08 111.93 Crater, craters Dec 18, 2020 Chilean mythological nocturnal bird whose wings shine at night with metallic colors so bright that cast no shadow. It lives in small caves and eats metal ores, weight of which gives no possibility to fly.
Bralgah Bennu 0.0690 -44.36 324.99 Crater, craters Dec 18, 2020 In myths of Aboriginal Australian people of the Murray River basin, a crane, who tossed an egg from the nest of emu Dinewan into the sky where it became the sun.
Dinewan Bennu 0.01 -41.40 323.70 Crater, craters Dec 18, 2020 Emu whose egg created the sun in the myths of Aboriginal Australian people of the Murray River basin.
Hokioi Bennu 0.0280 55.07 41.78 Crater, craters Dec 18, 2020 Maori (New Zealand) mythical bird with enormously long divided tail, which lives in heavens and never visits earth.
Huhuk Bennu 0.0750 -1.12 152.30 Crater, craters Dec 18, 2020 Pawnee (Central USA) Thunderbird, a huge long-necked bird with a forked, jagged tail. The beating of his wings causes thunder.
Lilitu Bennu 0.0280 -26.13 115.36 Crater, craters Dec 18, 2020 Mesopotamian/Sumerian nocturnal wind demon depicted as woman with wings and birds' feet with talons.
Minokawa Bennu 0.1811 -8.79 269.10 Crater, craters Dec 18, 2020 Massive bird that resides beyond the eastern horizon since before time began and causes lunar eclipses in myths of Bagobo (Lumad group at Mindanao Island, S. Philippines).
Ohnivak Bennu 0.0410 -4.23 125.67 Crater, craters Dec 18, 2020 In Czech and Slovak folklore, glowing or burning bird (firebird) with colorful red, gold and orange feathers.
Pegasus Bennu 0.0140 23.53 329.83 Crater, craters Dec 18, 2020 Winged horse in Greek mythology.
Sampati Bennu 0.0110 -19.02 97.34 Crater, craters Dec 18, 2020 In Hindu mythology, a giant bird, vulture, whose wings had been burnt by the blaze of the Sun when he had flown too close to it in racing with his brother.
Wuchowsen Bennu 0.02 11.78 88.13 Crater, craters Dec 18, 2020 Abenaki (Algonquians of NE USA) giant bird, named Windblower, who sits upon a rock at the edge of the sky far in the north and produces winds by his wings.
Wututu Bennu 0.0130 -17.03 84.34 Crater, craters Dec 18, 2020 Fon (Benin/Dahomey) mythical bird which reconciled the two gods in their dispute and thus ended a great drought.
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