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Liste der Features

http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/SearchResults?featureType=Cavus,%20cavi

Features auf Himmelskörper

http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/SearchResults?target=MARS&featureType=Cavus,%20cavi

Hinweis

Nach den Namenskonventionen der IAU werden für Oberflächenstrukturen auf Janus Namen mit Verbindung zum mythischen Zwillingspaar Castor und Pollux verwendet.

Categories for naming features on planets and satellites

The Moon

Feature type	Naming convention
Craters	Craters are generally named after deceased scientists, scholars, artists and explorers who have made outstanding or fundamental contributions to their field. Additionally, craters in or around Mare Moscoviense are named after deceased Russian cosmonauts and craters in and around Apollo crater are named after deceased American astronauts (see Space accidents and incidents). This convention may be extended if other space-faring countries suffer fatalities in spaceflight.
Lacūs, Maria, Paludes, Sinūs	These features are assigned names which are Latin terms describing weather and other abstract concepts.
Montes	Montes are named after terrestrial mountain ranges or nearby craters.
Rupēs	Rupēs are named after nearby mountain ranges (see above).
Valles	Valles are named after nearby features.
Others	Features that don't fall into any of the above categories are named after nearby craters.

Mars and martian satellites

Mars

Early map of Mars by Giovanni Schiaparelli, which depicts classical albedo features

Feature type	Naming convention
Large craters	Deceased scientists who have contributed to the study of Mars; writers and others who have contributed to the lore of Mars
Small craters	Villages of the world with a population of less than 100,000.
Large valles	Name for Mars/star in various languages
Small valles	Classical or modern names of rivers
Other features	From nearest named albedo feature on Schiaparelli or Antoniadi maps. See Classical albedo features on Mars for a list.

When space probes have landed on Mars, individual small features such as rocks, dunes, and hollows have often been given informal names. Many of these are frivolous: features have been named after ice cream (such as Cookies N Cream); cartoon characters (such as SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick); and '70s music acts (such as ABBA and the Bee Gees).

Deimos

The two named craters on Deimos

Features on Deimos are named after authors who wrote about Martian satellites. There are currently two named features on Deimos - Swift crater and Voltaire crater - after Jonathan Swift and Voltaire who predicted the presence of Martian moons.

Phobos

Vorlage:Seealso All features on Phobos are named after scientists involved with the discovery, dynamics, or properties of the Martian satellites or people and places from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Satellites of Jupiter

Amalthea

Vorlage:See also People and places associated with the Amalthea myth

Thebe

Features on Thebe are named after people and places associated with the Thebe myth. There is only one named feature on Thebes - Zethus crater.

Io

Feature type	Naming convention
Active eruptive centers	Active volcanoes on Io are named after fire, sun or thunder gods or heroes.
Catenae	Crater chains are named after Sun gods.
Fluctūs	Names of fluctūs are derived from a nearby named feature, fire, sun, thunder or volcano gods, goddesses and heroes or mythical blacksmiths.
Mensae, Montes, Plana, Regiones and Tholi	These features can be named after places associated with Io mythology, derived from nearby named features, or places from Dante's Inferno
Paterae	Paterae on Io are named after fire, sun, thunder or volcano gods, heroes or goddesses or mythical blacksmiths.
Valles	Names of valleys are derived from nearby named features.

Europa

Feature type	Naming convention
Chaos	Places associated with Celtic myths
Craters	Celtic gods and heroes
Flexūs	Places associated with the Europa myth
Large ringed features	Celtic stone circles
Lenticulae	Celtic gods and heroes
Lineae	People associated with the Europa myth
Maculae	Places associated with the Europa myth
Regiones	Places associated with Celtic myths

Ganymede

Feature type	Naming convention
Catenae, craters	Gods and heroes of ancient Fertile Crescent people
Faculae	Places associated with Egyptian myths
Fossae	Gods (or principals) of ancient Fertile Crescent people
Paterae	Paterae on Ganymede are named after wadis in the Fertile Crescent.
Regiones	Astronomers who discovered Jovian satellites
Sulci	Places associated with myths of ancient people

Callisto

Feature type	Naming convention
Large ringed features	Homes of the gods and of heroes
Craters	Heroes and heroines from northern myths
Catenae	Mythological places in high latitudes

Satellites of Saturn

Nach den Namenskonventionen der IAU werden für Oberflächenstrukturen auf Janus Namen mit Verbindung zum mythischen Zwillingspaar Castor und Pollux verwendet.

Enceladus

People and places from Burton's Arabian Nights

Tethys

People and places from Homer's Odyssey

Dione

People and places from Virgil's Aeneid

Rhea

People and places from creation myths

Titan

Feature type	Naming convention
Major bright albedo features	Sacred or enchanted places from legends, myths, stories, and poems of cultures from around the world
Major dark albedo features	Legendary/mythical primordial seas or enchanted waters from world cultures
Craters (and lakes if present)	Lakes from all continents on Earth
Fluvial channels	Rivers from all continents on Earth
Other features	Deities of happiness, peace, and harmony from world cultures

Hyperion

Vorlage:See also Sun and Moon deities

Iapetus

Vorlage:See also People and places from Sayers' translation of Chanson de Roland

Phoebe

Examples of crater nomenclature on Phoebe

Feature type	Naming convention
Craters	Craters of Phoebe are named after people associated with Phoebe or people from Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius or Gaius Valerius Flaccus.
Other	Non-crater features on Phoebe are named after places from Argonautica.

Satellites of Uranus

Puck

Vorlage:See also Mischievous (Pucklike) spirits (class)

Miranda

Vorlage:See also Characters, places from Shakespeare's plays

Ariel

Vorlage:See also Light spirits (individual and class)

Titania

Vorlage:See also Female Shakespearean characters, places

Oberon

Vorlage:See also Shakespearean tragic heroes and places

Small satellites

There are currently no named features on Uranian small satellites, however the naming convention is heroines from plays by Shakespeare and Pope.

Satellites of Neptune

Proteus

Vorlage:See also Features on Proteus are to be named after water-related spirits, gods or goddesses who are neither Greek nor Roman. The only named feature on Proteus is Pharos.

Triton

Vorlage:See also Geological features on Triton should be assigned aquatic names, excluding those which are Roman and Greek in origin. Possible themes for individual descriptor terms include worldwide aquatic spirits, famous terrestrial fountains or fountain locations, terrestrial aquatic features, famous terrestrial geysers or geyser locations and terrestrial islands.

Nereid

There are currently no named features on Nereid. When features are discovered, they are to be named after individual nereids.

Small satellites

Features on other satellites of Neptune, once discovered, should be named after gods and goddesses associated with Neptune/Poseidon mythology or generic mythological aquatic beings.

Pluto

There are currently no named features on Pluto because it is extremely difficult to resolve surface features with current telescopes. When discovered, either by telescopic observation or the New Horizons flyby in 2015, Plutonian surface features are to be named after underworld deities.

Asteroids

243 Ida

Feature type	Naming convention
Craters	Caverns and grottos of the world
Dorsa	Galileo project participants
Regiones	Discoverer of Ida and places associated with the discoverer

(243) Ida I Dactyl

Feature type	Naming convention
Craters	Idaean dactyls

951 Gaspra

Feature type	Naming convention
Craters	Spas of the world
Regiones	Discoverer of Gaspra, and Galileo project participants

253 Mathilde

Feature type	Naming convention
Craters	Coal fields and basins of the world

433 Eros

Feature type	Naming convention
Craters	Mythological and legendary names of an erotic nature
Regiones	Discoverers of Eros
Dorsa	Scientists who have contributed to the exploration and study of Eros

25143 Itokawa

The IAU has named craters and regiones on Itokawa but has not disclosed any naming conventions.