Dankdag Labes
What Dankdag Labes is
Dankdag Labes is a labes — a landslide — on Ceres, 23.5 km across, centred at 78.4° N, 39.2° E. It is the 99th largest named feature on Ceres and the 1st largest of its class there.
Where the name comes from
Dutch (The Netherlands) day of thanksgiving for the crop (1st Wednesday of November). The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2019, under the theme it applies to every labes on Ceres. Of the 3 features of this class catalogued on Ceres, the naming categories run The Netherlands (Dutch) (1), Jewish (1), India (1).
What it would take to settle Dankdag Labes
Ceres scores 43.8 as a world. That number is the same for every square metre of it — but sunlight, water, radiation and the ground under your feet are not. This is the same question asked at 78.4° N, 39.2° E.
What this spot has going for it is water — inside the polar zone where Ceres keeps its ice. What works against it is sunlight — 21% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Ceres gets.
Computed from Dankdag Labes's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 68% of the model's weight had a basis here, and 3 axes were dropped as not applicable to Ceres (radiation geometry, earth link, known ground). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Ceres and are already counted in the world's own index, not again here.
What this cannot see: elevation. Slope, local shadowing and the polar “peaks of eternal light” — ridge tops near the poles of a barely tilted world that catch sun almost continuously while a crater floor kilometres away never does — need a terrain model this does not have. Where a real mission targets a pole, that is usually why.