Names of geological features on the surface of Itokawa and explanations on their nomenclature



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[Craters]
	Name	Orgin
1	Catalina	Catalina Observatory, near Tucson, AZ, USA.
2	Fuchinobe	Place name in Sagamihara, Japan.
3	Gando	Spanish launch facility on Gran Canaria.
4	Hammaguira	French launch site in the Sahara Desert, Algeria.
5	Kamisunagawa	Town in Hokkaido, Japan, where a microgravity test facility is located.
6	Kamoi	Town in Yokohama, Japan, where a factory of NEC TOSHIBA Space Systems, Ltd. is located.
7	Komaba	Place name in Tokyo, where the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science is located.
8	Laurel	City in Maryland USA, where APL/JHU is located.
9	Miyabaru	Radar site in the Uchinoura Space Center in Japan.
10	San Marco	An old oil platform near Kenya that served as a launch pad for Italian spacecraft.

[Regiones]
	Name	Origin
11	Arcoona Regio	Place name near the Hayabusa capsule recovery site, Woomera, in Australia.
12	LINEAR Regio	Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research program, discoverer of the asteroid Itokawa.
13	Ohsumi Regio	Peninsula in Japan where the Uchiunoura Space Center is located.
14	Yoshinobu Regio	Launch site in the Tanegashima Space Center, Japan.

[Names which have already been approved by IAU]
	Name	Origin
1	MUSES-C Regio	MUSES-C, the name of the Hayabusa spacecraft prior to launch.
2	Sagamihara Regio	Town in Japan where the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science is located.
3	Uchinoura Regio	Town in Japan, launch site of the Hayabusa spacecraft.