All mountains on Titan must be named after mountains in Lord of the Rings!

All mountains on Titan must be named after mountains in Lord of the Rings!

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn. It is the only natural satellite known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found.

Doom Mons is the name of a mountain range and it's eponymous peak on Titan. Doom Mons is the largest mountain range on Titan by volume, and it's peak possibly the highest.

Doom Mons is named after Mount Doom, a volcano that appears in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, most prominently in The Lord of the Rings.

The name follows a convention by the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature that Titanian mountains are named after mountains in Tolkien's works.

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