Coleta de Dados Colles

Location of the Coleta de Dados Colles on the dwarf planet Pluto.

Coleta de Dados Colles (right).

The Coleta de Dados Colles are a cluster of hills ("colles") on the smooth plains of Sputnik Planitia on Pluto.^[1] They actually represent blocks of water ice floating in the denser nitrogen ice of the planitia. The hills were informally named in July 28, 2015 by the research team of the New Horizons mission after the first Brazilian satellite, the Satélite de Coleta de Dados ("Satellite for Data Collecting" in Portuguese). So, the ridge's name means "Data Collecting Colles." The name has yet to be recognized by the IAU.

References

Um satélite brasileiro em Plutão (Portuguese)
Primeiro satélite nacional nomeia região em Plutão (Portuguese)

↑ Staff (28 July 2015). "Informal Names for the Features on Pluto and Charon". SETI Institute. Retrieved 17 August 2015.

Pluto

Geography
(features)

Regions	"Brass Knuckles" Krun Ala Balrog Vucub-Came Hun-Came Meng-p'o Cadejo Cthulhu Hayabusa Lowell Morgoth Pioneer Tombaugh Venera Viking Voyager

Mountains	Challenger Colles Coleta de Dados Colles Hillary Montes Norgay Montes

Plains	Sputnik Planitia

Valleys and depressions	Quidlivun Cavus

Lineae	Luna Linea

General	Atmosphere Geology

Moons

Charon
(features)

Regions	Gallifrey Mordor Vulcan

Mountains	Kubrick Mons

Chasms	Nostromo Chasma

Craters	Ripley Crater

Geology	Geology

Other moons

Astronomy

Definition	Alan Stern Definition of planet Double planet Dwarf planet IAU definition of planet International Astronomical Union Michael E. Brown Neil deGrasse Tyson Planet Plutino Plutoid Trans-Neptunian object

Discovery	Clyde Tombaugh James Christy Lowell Observatory Percival Lowell Planet X Roger Putnam

Eclipses	Solar eclipses on Pluto

General	Kuiper belt

Exploration

Current	Hubble Space Telescope New Horizons

Cancelled	Pluto Fast Flyby/Pluto Kuiper Express Mariner Mark II

Old proposals	Voyager 1 TAU

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