Italian names in the Solar System
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There are a number of objects in the Solar System that have been named after Italian people or places. Many of these are craters on the terrestrial planets but asteroids and exoplanets have also received Italian names.
Moons
[edit | edit source]Titan
[edit | edit source]Ariel
[edit | edit source]- Befana crater
Venus
[edit | edit source]- Agnesi (crater)
- Bassi crater
- Caccini crater
- Cortese crater
- d'Este crater
- Deledda crater
Mars
[edit | edit source]- Cagli crater
- Cefalù
- Crotone
- Herculaneum
- Locana
- Mistretta
- Nardo
- Neive
- Novara
- Pompeii
- Sarno
Ceres
[edit | edit source]- Piazzi, a dark region southwest of Dantu crater
Asteroids
[edit | edit source]Ida and Dactyl
[edit | edit source]- Azzurra crater
- Castellana crater
- Stiffe crater
External links
[edit | edit source]- Italiani nel sistema solare, Michele T. Mazzucato, 2008, Nature