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
The Moon
Ganymede
Titan
- Elba Facula
- Genova Sinus
- Mezzoramia (Titan)
Ariel
- Befana crater
Venus
- Agnesi (crater)
- Bassi crater
- Caccini crater
- Cortese crater
- d'Este crater
- Deledda crater
Mars
- Cagli crater
- Cefalù
- Crotone
- Herculaneum
- Locana
- Mistretta
- Nardo
- Neive
- Novara
- Pompeii
- Sarno
Ceres
- Piazzi, a dark region southwest of Dantu crater
Asteroids
Ida and Dactyl
- Azzurra crater
- Castellana crater
- Stiffe crater
External links
- Italiani nel sistema solare, Michele T. Mazzucato, 2008, Nature
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.