Pouakai Saxum is named for the monstrous bird who kills and eat humans in Māori (Polynesia) mythology. This large, flat boulder appears to be partly buried and is located in Tlanuwa Regio, which has an unusually high concentration of large boulders. Strix Saxum is a large boulder flanking the OSIRIS-REx mission’s backup sample collection site.Īmihan Saxum is named for the Tagalog (Philippines) mythological deity, who is depicted as a bird and was the first creature to inhabit the universe. Strix Saxum is named for the Strix bird of ill-omen from Roman mythology. 19, 2019, particle ejection event on Bennu. Ocypete Saxum is located near the origin of the Jan. Ocypete Saxum is named for one of the Greek harpies, the half-maiden and half-bird personification of storm winds that would snatch and carry things away from Earth. Huginn Saxum and Muninn Saxum are adjacent boulders named for the two ravens, Huginn and Muninn, who accompany the god Odin in Norse mythology. The Simurgh was said to possess all knowledge, and Simurgh Saxum defines the prime meridian on Bennu and is the basis for the asteroid’s coordinate system. Simurgh Saxum is named for the benevolent, mythological bird in Persian mythology. Roc Saxum is the largest boulder feature on Bennu. Roc Saxum is named for the Roc, an enormous bird of prey in Arabian mythology of the Middle East. Benben Saxum is the tallest boulder on Bennu. In Egyptian mythology, the god Atum settled upon Benben to create the world after his flight over the waters in the form of the Bennu bird. Tlanuwa Regio is an area covered by large boulders in Bennu’s southern hemisphere.īenben Saxum is named for an ancient Egyptian mound that arose from the primordial waters Nu. Tlanuwa Regio is named for the giant birds who scattered the Earth with pieces of a serpent that turned into standing pillars of rocks in Cherokee mythology. Bennu’s diverse terrain types – including regiones (broad geographic regions), craters, dorsa (ridges), fossae (grooves or trenches) and saxa (rocks and boulders) – will be named after birds and bird-like creatures in mythology, and the places associated with them. The approved Bennu surface feature names are listed below. “These features are providing us with insight into Bennu’s history, and their new names symbolize the essence of the mission – studying the past to both discover our origins and understand our future,” said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona, Tucson. “Since arriving at the asteroid, the OSIRIS-REx team has become incredibly familiar with all of the geological features on Bennu,” said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
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