Dante Alighieri - A Moon crater- Montreal, Qc, Canada
Posted by: tatie
N 45° 32.067 W 073° 36.705
18T E 608393 N 5043261
Dante Alighieri - A Moon crater- is located in Montreal, Qc, Canada.
Waymark Code: WMEYGD
Location: Québec, Canada
Date Posted: 07/22/2012
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Dante is a lunar 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.
Here are the details about it :
Coordinates 25.5°N 180.0°
Diameter 54 km
Depth Unknown
Eponym Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, mononymously referred to as Dante (1265–1321), was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker.
He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia (Divine Comedy), considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
In Italy he is known as il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet") or just il Poeta.
The monument to Dante Alighieri, by Carlo Balboni (1860-1947), was unveiled on October 22, 1922 in the Parc Lafontaine. It was a gift of Montreal's Italian community. The monument was moved to Dante Park in Little Italy in 1964.
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Celestial Body: Moon
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