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Several space objects and features have been named after Serbian people or things in Serbia. These include planetary features on Mars and Venus, asteroids and exoplanets. Moon
The following is a list of people whose names were given to craters of the Moon. The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature maintained by the International Astronomical Union includes the person the crater is named for.
The large and relatively young lunar impact crater Tycho taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. [1]This is a list of named lunar craters.The large majority of these features are impact craters.
Like many of the craters on the Moon's near side, it was given its name by the Jesuit astronomer G.B. Riccioli, whose 1651 nomenclature system has become standardized. [8] [9] Earlier lunar cartographers had given the feature different names. Pierre Gassendi named it Umbilicus Lunaris ('the navel of the Moon').
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KBC Void is an immense empty region of space, named after Ryan Keenan, Amy Barger, and Lennox Cowie. Mayall's Object is the result of a galaxy collision in Ursa Major, named after Nicholas Mayall. 9Spitch is a gravitationally lensed system of two galaxies in Cetus. It is named after Zbigniew "Zbish" Chetnik.
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Feature Type Coordinates Named after Ref Andronov: Crater: Aleksandr Andronov (1901–1952) [133]Andrusov: Dorsa: Nicolai I. Andrusov (1861–1924) [134]Artamonov: Catena: Nikolay Artamonov (1906–1965)