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Pic of asteroid Donaldjohanson with annotations for recognized names of its geologic features. Few annotations added by me. Names include: Afar Lobus (Lobe) Olduvai Lobus (Lobe) Windover Collum (Neck) Hadar Regio (Region) Minatogawa Regio (Region) Narmada (Crater) Mingo (Crater) Luzia Dorsum (Ridge) Cashel Saxum (Boulder) Kennewicks Saxum (Boulder) Boxgrove Saxum (Boulder) Credit: NASA Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL

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Pic of asteroid Donaldjohanson with annotations for recognized names of its geologic features. Few annotations added by me. Names include: Afar Lobus (Lobe) Olduvai Lobus (Lobe) Windover Collum (Neck) Hadar Regio (Region) Minatogawa Regio (Region) Narmada (Crater) Mingo (Crater) Luzia Dorsum (Ridge) Cashel Saxum (Boulder) Kennewicks Saxum (Boulder) Boxgrove Saxum (Boulder) Credit: NASA Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL
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AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 18-Sep-2025 10:00:04 JST AkaSci 🛰️

Asteroid Donaldjohanson just got some new names for its various surface features.
The names were proposed by the NASA Lucy mission team to the IAU based on various paleoanthropological sites and discoveries.
Names include:
Afar Lobus
Olduvai Lobus
Windover Collum
Hadar Regio
Minatogawa Regio
Narmada
Mingo
Luzia Dorsum
Cashel Saxum
Kennewicks Saxum
Boxgrove Saxum
See https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/114366260358409279 for info from the April 20 flyby of Donaldjohanson by the Lucy spacecraft.
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/regions-on-asteroid-explored-by-nasas-lucy-mission-get-official-names/
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