What is "crocco"

thumb|right|240px|Oblique Lunar Orbiter 2 view, facing south Crocco is a lunar crater that is located on the far side of the Moon from the Earth. It is located to the northeast of the huge walled plain Planck, and northwest of the equally huge Poincaré. Just to the north, within one crater diameter, is the crater Koch.

This is a nearly circular crater formation whose eastern rim has been partly overlain by the satellite crater Crocco G. The rim has received some erosion, but it retains a well-defined edge. A small craterlet lies across the north-northeast rim. Just to the west-southwest of Crocco, nearly attached to the rim, is the satellite crater Crocco R.

The northwestern half of the interior floor is level and almost featureless; displaying the appearance of having been resurfaced by lava. The opposite half of the floor displays some irregularities, including the rim of a small crater that has been almost completely submerged by the lava flow. This crater has a gap in the north rim, and forms a bay on the interior floor of Crocco. A ridge runs from the western rim of this small crater to the southwest inner wall of Crocco.

Crocco may refer to:

• Carmine Crocco (1830–1905), also known as Donatello, Italian guerrilla head, leader and strategist of a sector of Bourbon "legitimist" troops, outlawed yet considered a folk hero
• Gaetano Arturo Crocco (1877–1968), Italian mathematician and space scientist who in 1932 designed and built the world's first successful jet propulsion airplane, making with it the first controlled, powered and sustained jet flight, also concerned with Mars exploration by designing gravity-assisted routes and manoeuvres
• Mario Crocco (born 1926), Italo-Argentinian neurobiologist at the Hospital Borda in Buenos Aires, specialized in brain biophysics, also concerned with Mars exploration by modelling van der Waals-sustained water rheology flowing at −100 °C (173 K) into eventual biological organisms
• Matt Crocco (born 1971), American musician, writer, and producer
• Luigi Crocco (1909-1986), Italo-American mathematician and space engineer, Chair in Princeton and Paris, Director of the Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center, and designer of the endoreactor F1 that propelled the Saturn V in the Apollo Program
• Héctor Eulalio Crocco (1889-1939), Italo-Argentinian industrial chemist in Buenos Aires, pioneer in the early field of detergents
• Crocco (crater), a lunar crater so named to honor Gaetano Crocco
• 10606 Crocco, asteroid of the Solar system so named to honor Gaetano Crocco
• Crocco Grand Tour, a spaceship’s interplanetary trajectory found by Gaetano Crocco and used extensively in interplanetary missions today
• Crocco's theorem, a fluid dynamics theorem by Italian scientist Luigi Crocco (third son of Gaetano Crocco) relating the velocity, vorticity, and stagnation pressure (or entropy) of a potential flow