Hoerikwaggo

Mensa · α Men · HR 2261

HIP29271
IAU adoption2024/12/12

Name origin

the name of the constellation originally was Mons Mensae (Table Mountain) and not only "table"; this mountain had been called Sea-Mountain by Indigenous ethnics, in the Saan/ Khoe language spelled Huriǂoaxa, simplified in Africaans Hoerikwaggo.

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