Momotaro
What Momotaro is
Momotaro is a crater — a circular depression, almost always an impact scar — on Ryugu, 0.2 km across, centred at 12.5° S, 51.9° E. It is the 8th largest named feature on Ryugu and the 5th largest of its class there.
Where the name comes from
âPeach Boyâ in Japanese fairy tale, who came to Earth inside a giant peach and once undertook a journey to fight horned ogres in a distant island. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2018, under the theme it applies to every crater on Ryugu. Of the 7 features of this class catalogued on Ryugu, the naming categories run Japan (4), France (1), Russia (1), The Netherlands (Dutch) (1).
What it would take to settle Momotaro
Ryugu scores 58.1 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 12.5° S, 51.9° E.
What this spot has going for it is known ground — 1 km from Hayabusa2 touchdown (2019). What works against it is water — same as everywhere else on this world.
Computed from Momotaro's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 74% of the model's weight had a basis here, and 2 axes were dropped as not applicable to Ryugu (radiation geometry, earth link). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Ryugu 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.