Nganurganity

Canis Major · σ CMa · HR 2646

HIP33856
Visual magnitude3.49
Right ascension (J2000)105.43°
Declination (J2000)-27.9348°
WDS J07017-2756
IAU adoption2017/09/05

Name origin

Nganurganity [ˈŋanuɾˌɡ̊aniɟ̊] is the "Jacky lizard" in the culture of the Boorong, a clan of the indigenous Maligundidj people of northwestern Victoria in Australia, who saw it as an ancestral figure who fights the moon, flanked by his wives. The name was listed as Unurgunite in Stanbridge(1861), for initial ng-, which does not occur in English, was typically ignored in transcription of that era. WGSN corrects the spelling.

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