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[[File:Melotte-111.jpg|alt=photograph (Sternwarte Kempten, CC0)|thumb|Open cluster Melotte 111, or Coma Star Cluster.]]
A brief information (language, culture of origin)
Polynesian name for the constellation Coma Berenices.<ref>Collocott, Ernest E.V. (1922). ''Tongan Astronomy and Calendar''. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum (Occasional Paper no. 4, vol 8).</ref>


==Etymology and History==
==Etymology and History==
This comprises two groups of four stars called Fata-lalo and Fata-olunga {Tonga} [Collocott 1922: 161; Makemson 1941: 204 #62]. Lit., "fire pit" [from Samoan]

Ernest Collocott, Methodist missionary


==Mythology==
==Mythology==
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== Reference ==
== Reference ==
[[Category:Asterism‏‎]]

[[Category:Single star-asterism‏‎]]
[[Category:Oceania]]
[[Category:Oceania]]

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photograph (Sternwarte Kempten, CC0)
Open cluster Melotte 111, or Coma Star Cluster.

Polynesian name for the constellation Coma Berenices.[1]

Etymology and History

This comprises two groups of four stars called Fata-lalo and Fata-olunga {Tonga} [Collocott 1922: 161; Makemson 1941: 204 #62]. Lit., "fire pit" [from Samoan]

Ernest Collocott, Methodist missionary

Mythology

IAU Working Group Star Names

The name was discussed and approved by the IAU WGSN in 202x. As this star is already named ..., the WGSN chose ... (not to apply/ to apply the name to a neighbouring star/ to ...) in the IAU-CSN.

Weblinks

Reference

  1. Collocott, Ernest E.V. (1922). Tongan Astronomy and Calendar. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum (Occasional Paper no. 4, vol 8).