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Feature Name
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Target |
Diameter |
Center Latitude
|
Center
Longitude |
Feature Type
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Approval Date
|
Origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brabo | Ryugu | 0.14 | 4.50 | 229.70 | Crater, craters | Dec 19, 2018 | A brave young fellow, who defeated a giant, from Dutch fairy tale. |
| Catafo Saxum | Ryugu | 0.05 | -5.50 | 0.00 | Saxum, saxa | Dec 19, 2018 | Smart boy, who marked a trail in the woods with corn meal to know the way back, from Cajun (Southern USA) fairy tale. |
| Cendrillon | Ryugu | 0.22 | 31.90 | 350.50 | Crater, craters | Dec 19, 2018 | Protagonist of a fairy tale Cendrillon by French writer Charles Perrault (1697), also known as Cinderella. |
| Ejima Saxum | Ryugu | 0.07 | -32.00 | 101.10 | Saxum, saxa | Dec 19, 2018 | Seacoast in Japanese fairy tale where fisherman Urashima Taro rescued a turtle and started his journey to the undersea Ryugu Palace. |
| Horai Fossa | Ryugu | 0.33 | 32.10 | 296.60 | Fossa, fossae | Dec 19, 2018 | Mythical Mount Horai (Penglai in Chinese), paradise of the immortals; in some versions of the Japanese fairy tale about fisherman Urashima is located in the sea on the shell of tortoise that princess Otohime has turned into. |
| Kibidango | Ryugu | 0.13 | -31.20 | 50.00 | Crater, craters | Dec 19, 2018 | Japanese ball-like dumplings made from the flour of the kibi (proso millet) grain that the fairy tale hero Momotaro brought on his distant journey because this sweet keeps its softness for a long time. |
| Kintaro | Ryugu | 0.17 | 0.40 | 157.80 | Crater, craters | Dec 19, 2018 | ‘Golden Boy’ in Japanese fairy tale, who grew up in the wild forests of Mount Ashigara and had a superhuman strength. |
| Kolobok | Ryugu | 0.18 | -1.50 | 333.50 | Crater, craters | Dec 19, 2018 | Small ball-like bun, which ran away from home and rolled on the road, singing his tricky song; protagonist of a Russian fairy tale. |
| Momotaro | Ryugu | 0.19 | -12.50 | 51.90 | Crater, craters | Dec 19, 2018 | ‘Peach Boy’ in Japanese fairy tale, who came to Earth inside a giant peach and once undertook a journey to fight horned ogres in a distant island. |
| Otohime Saxum | Ryugu | 0.16 | -69.80 | 274.40 | Saxum, saxa | Dec 19, 2018 | Otohime Sama; princess in Japanese fairy tale, sea mistress, who welcomed fisherman Urashima Taro in undersea Ryugu Palace and gave him a parting gift, a jewel box whose lid he was told never to open. |
| Ryujin Dorsum | Ryugu | 3.20 | 0.00 | 180.00 | Dorsum, dorsa | Dec 18, 2018 | ‘Dragon god’, sea ruler in Japanese fairy tale, father of princess Otohime, master of the undersea Ryugu Palace where fisherman Urashima Taro was a guest. |
| Tokoyo Fossa | Ryugu | 0.56 | -50.50 | 166.20 | Fossa, fossae | Dec 19, 2018 | Immortal world of Japanese mythology, eternal, timeless land across the sea or undersea kingdom, where the princess Otohime lives in the fairy tale about the fisherman Urashima. |
| Urashima | Ryugu | 0.29 | -8.10 | 92.90 | Crater, craters | Dec 19, 2018 | Urashima Taro; fisherman in Japanese fairy tale who rescued a turtle and traveled on its back to the dragon Ryujin’s undersea Ryugu Palace, where he was welcomed by princess Otohime. |
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