Dante (crater)

Short description: Crater on the Moon

Dante

LRO image

Diameter| 54 km
Depth| Unknown
Colongitude| 181° at sunrise
Oblique Lunar Orbiter 2 image

Dante is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. It lies in the northern hemisphere exactly opposite the prime meridian facing the Earth. The nearest craters of note are Larmor to the north and Morse to the southeast. To the southwest is the oddly shaped Buys-Ballot.

This crater is overlain by part of the ray system radiating from Larmor Q to the northwest. The rim of Dante is circular but somewhat eroded. The fresh crater Dante G is attached to the exterior along the east-southeastern rim. The interior floor of this crater is uneven and marked by several small impacts.

The crater lies within the Freundlich-Sharonov Basin.

## Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Dante.

Dante  | Latitude  | Longitude  | Diameter

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C  | 28.3° N  | 177.1° W  | 54 km
E  | 26.7° N  | 177.0° W  | 43 km
G  | 24.9° N  | 178.6° W  | 24 km
P  | 23.6° N  | 179.4° E  | 27 km
S  | 24.9° N  | 177.3° E  | 17 km
T  | 25.8° N  | 176.6° E  | 20 km
Y  | 27.1° N  | 179.5° E  | 27 km

## References

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Dante Alighieri

Works in Latin|

* De vulgari eloquentia
* De Monarchia
* Eclogues

Works in Italian|

* La Vita Nuova
* Le Rime
* Convivio

Divine Comedy|

* Inferno
* Purgatorio
* Paradiso
* Cultural references

Books, articles, concepts|

* Contrapasso
* Dante Encyclopedia
* Enciclopedia Dantesca

People in Dante's life|

* Alighiero di Bellincione (father)
* Jacopo Alighieri (son)
* Guido Cavalcanti
* Brunetto Latini
* Beatrice Portinari

Dante in popular culture|

* Dante crater
* Dante Alighieri Academy
* Scuola Italiana Dante Alighieri
* Dante Park, New York
* Dante Park, Montreal
* Monument to Dante
* Dante Alighieri sculpture
* Italian battleship Dante Alighieri

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Craters on the Moon: C–F

* C. Herschel
* C. Mayer
* Cabannes
* Cabeus
* Cailleux
* Cai Lun
* Cajal
* Cajori
* Calippus
* Cameron
* Campanus
* Campbell
* Cannizzaro
* Cannon
* Cantor
* Capella
* Capuanus
* Cardanus
* Carlini
* Carlos
* Carmichael
* Carnot
* Carol
* Carpenter
* Carrel
* Carrillo
* Carrington
* Cartan
* Carver
* Casatus
* Cassegrain
* Cassini
* Catalán
* Catharina
* Cauchy
* Cavalerius
* Cavendish
* Caventou
* Cayley
* Celsius
* Censorinus
* Cepheus
* Chacornac
* Chadwick
* Chaffee
* Challis
* Chalonge
* Chamberlin
* Champollion
* Chandler
* Chang Heng
* Chang-Ngo
* Chant
* Chaplygin
* Chapman
* Chappe
* Chappell
* Charles
* Charlier
* Chaucer
* Chauvenet
* Chawla
* Chebyshev
* Chernyshev
* Chevallier
* Ching-Te
* Chladni
* Chrétien
* Cichus
* Clairaut
* Clark
* Clausius
* Clavius
* Cleomedes
* Cleostratus
* Clerke
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* Cockcroft
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* Compton
* Comrie
* Comstock
* Condon
* Condorcet
* Congreve
* Conon
* Cook
* Cooper
* Copernicus
* Cori
* Coriolis
* Couder
* Coulomb
* Courtney
* Cremona
* Crile
* Crocco
* Crommelin
* Crookes
* Crozier
* Crüger
* Ctesibius
* Curie
* Curtis
* Curtius
* Cusanus
* Cuvier
* Cyrano
* Cyrillus
* Cysatus

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* da Vinci
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* Dag
* Daguerre
* Dale
* d'Alembert
* Dalton
* Daly
* Damoiseau
* Daniell
* Danjon
* Dante
* Darney
* D'Arrest
* D'Arsonval
* Darwin
* Das
* Daubrée
* Davisson
* Davy
* Dawes
* Dawson
* De Forest
* de Gasparis
* de Gerlache
* De La Rue
* De Moraes
* De Morgan
* De Roy
* De Sitter
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* De Vries
* Debes
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* Debye
* Dechen
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* Delia
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* Deutsch
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* Diana
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* Dirichlet
* Dobrovol'skiy
* Doerfel
* Dollond
* Donati
* Donna
* Donner
* Doppelmayer
* Doppler
* Douglass
* Dove
* Draper
* Drebbel
* Dreyer
* Drude
* Dryden
* Drygalski
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* Dunér
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* Dyson
* Dziewulski

* Eckert
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* Freundlich
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* Frost
* Fryxell
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