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