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

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  • Befana crater

Venus

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  • Agnesi (crater)
  • Bassi crater
  • Caccini crater
  • Cortese crater
  • d'Este crater
  • Deledda crater

Mars

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  • Cagli crater
  • Cefalù
  • Crotone
  • Herculaneum
  • Locana
  • Mistretta
  • Nardo
  • Neive
  • Novara
  • Pompeii
  • Sarno

Ceres

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  • Piazzi, a dark region southwest of Dantu crater

Asteroids

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Ida and Dactyl

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  • Azzurra crater
  • Castellana crater
  • Stiffe crater
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  • Italiani nel sistema solare, Michele T. Mazzucato, 2008, Nature