• Source: 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






= The Moon

=
Abetti (crater)
Dante (crater)




= Ganymede

=
Galileo Regio




= 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


472 Roma
477 Italia
487 Venetia
2999 Dante
7794 Sanvito
16765 Agnesi




= Ida and Dactyl

=
Azzurra crater
Castellana crater
Stiffe crater




External links


Italiani nel sistema solare, Michele T. Mazzucato, 2008, Nature

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