What is "donati"

Donati is a lunar impact crater that is located in the rugged south-central highlands of the Moon. It lies just to the northwest of the crater Faye, and the two outer rims are separated by a gap of less than 10 kilometers. To the north is the comparably sized Airy, and farther to the southeast is Playfair. Donati is 36 kilometers in diameter.

The outer wall of Donati has been eroded by subsequent impacts, particularly in the south and east, where craterlets overlie the rim. The distorted northern rim is joined with the irregularly shaped satellite crater Airy C. The inner floor of Donati is irregular and marked by small craters, particularly in the south and southwest. At the midpoint of the interior is a central rise. The crater is from the Pre-Imbrian period, 4.55 to 3.85 billion years ago.

It is named after the 19th-century Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati.

Donati is a surname, and may refer to:

• Angelo Donati (1885-1960), Italian banker and philanthropist
• Baldassare Donati (1525/30–1603), Italian composer of the late Renaissance
• Buoso Donati (—ca. 1285), character in Dante's Divine Comedy
• Cianfa Donati (—bef. 1289), character in Dante's Divine Comedy
• Corso Donati (–1308), leader of the Black Guelphs in Florence, brother of Forese and Piccarda
• Danilo Donati (1926–2001), Italian costume designer
• Enrico Donati (1909–2008), American Surrealist painter and sculptor of Italian birth
• Forese Donati (–1296), brother of Corso and Piccarda, a friend of Dante Alighieri included as a character in the Divine Comedy
• Giovanni Battista Donati (1826–1873), Italian astronomer
• Giulio Donati (born 1990) Italian footballer
• Giuseppe Donati (1836–1925), inventor of the modern ocarina
• Ignazio Donati (c. 1570–1638), Italian composer
• Massimo Donati (born 1981), Italian footballer
• Piccarda (13th century), sister to Corso and Forese, included as a character in Dante's Divine Comedy
• Silvano (born 1942), scientist, professor of photonics
• Virgil Donati, Australian drummer
• Vitaliano Donati (1717–1762), Italian botanist

See also:

• Donati (crater) named after Giovanni Battista Donati
• Donatus of Evorea, an Albanian saint known as Shën Donati in Albanian.