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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

The Moon

Ganymede

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
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