Czech names in space

Several space objects and features have been named after Czech people or things in Czechia. These include planetary features on Mars and Venus, asteroids and exoplanets.

Moon

• Anděl (crater)
• Bečvář (crater)
• Biela (crater)
• C. Mayer (crater)
• Freud (crater)
• Hagecius (crater)
• Heinrich (crater)
• Heyrovsky (crater)
• Littrow (crater)
• Oppolzer (crater)
• Palisa (crater)
• Rheita (crater)
• Weinek (crater)

Mars

• Cheb crater
• Tábor crater

Venus

• Cori crater
• Hanka crater
• Julie crater
• Němcová crater
• Vlasta crater

Asteroids

• 7796 Járacimrman

951 Gaspra

• Carlsbad crater
• Mariánské Lázně crater

Exoplanets

• Makropulos

External links

• http://www.ian.cz/detart_fr.php?id=1334 Archived 2005-02-16 at the Wayback Machine