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