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Yamor Mons

Ecuadorian corn/maize festival (held in September).

What Yamor Mons is

Yamor Mons is a mons — a mountain — on Ceres, 16 km across, centred at 85.5° N, 12.0° E. It is the 122nd largest named feature on Ceres and the 3rd largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Ecuadorian corn/maize festival (held in September). The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2016, under the theme it applies to every mons on Ceres. Of the 3 features of this class catalogued on Ceres, the naming categories run Roman (1), India (1), Ecuador (1).

Feature class
a mountain
Diameter
16 km
about the length of Manhattan
Coordinates
85.5° N, 12.0° E
Planetocentric, on Ceres
Name approved
2016
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming category
Ecuador
South and Central America

What it would take to settle Yamor Mons

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 85.5° N, 12.0° E.

Settlement difficulty here
49.4/ 100
Harder than most of this world
Ceres overall
43.8
5.6 harder than the median site
Ranked
149th
of 149 named places on Ceres

What this spot has going for it is water inside the polar zone where Ceres keeps its ice. What works against it is sunlight 10% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Ceres gets.

Computed from Yamor Mons'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.

What is next to it

The largest mons features on Ceres