Italian names in the solar system
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]
The Moon[edit]
Ganymede[edit]
Titan[edit]
Ariel[edit]
- Befana crater
Venus[edit]
- Agnesi (crater)
- Bassi crater
- Caccini crater
- Cortese crater
- d'Este crater
- Deledda crater
Mars[edit]
- Cagli crater
- Cefalù
- Crotone
- Herculaneum
- Locana
- Mistretta
- Nardo
- Neive
- Novara
- Pompeii
- Sarno
Ceres[edit]
- Piazzi, a dark region southwest of Dantu crater
Asteroids[edit]
Ida and Dactyl[edit]
- Azzurra crater
- Castellana crater
- Stiffe crater
External links[edit]
- Italiani nel sistema solare, Michele T. Mazzucato, 2008, Nature