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List of craters on the Moon
This is a list of the craters on the Moon. Where a crater formation has satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages.
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Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
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Baade | 55 km | Walter Baade |
Babakin | 20 km | G. N. Babakin |
Babbage | 143 km | Charles Babbage |
Babcock | 99 km | Harold D. Babcock |
Back | 35 km | Ernst Emil Alexander Back |
Backlund | 75 km | Oskar Backlund |
Baco | 69 km | Roger Bacon |
Baillaud | 89 km | Benjamin Baillaud |
Bailly | 287 km | Jean Sylvain Bailly |
Baily | 26 km | Francis Baily |
Balandin | 12 km | Aleksei Aleksandrovich Balandin |
Balboa | 69 km | Vasco Núñez de Balboa |
Baldet | 55 km | Fernand Baldet |
Ball | 41 km | William Ball |
Balmer | 138 km | Johann Balmer |
Banachiewicz | 92 km | Tadeusz Banachiewicz |
Bancroft | 13 km | Wilder Dwight Bancroft |
Banting | 5 km | Frederick Banting |
Barbier | 66 km | Daniel Barbier |
Barkla | 42 km | Charles Glover Barkla |
Barnard | 105 km | Edward Emerson Barnard |
Barocius | 82 km | Francesco Barocius |
Barringer | 68 km | Daniel Barringer |
Barrow | 92 km | Isaac Barrow |
Bartels | 55 km | Julius Bartels |
Bawa | 1 km | (African male name) |
Bayer | 47 km | Johann Bayer |
Beals | 48 km | Carlyle Smith Beals |
Beaumont | 53 km | Léonce Élie de Beaumont |
Becquerel | 65 km | Henri Becquerel |
Bečvář | 67 km | Antonin Becvar |
Beer | 9 km | Wilhelm Beer |
Behaim | 55 km | Martin Behaim |
Beijerinck | 70 km | Martinus Willem Beijerinck |
Beketov | 8 km | Nikolay Nikolayevich Beketov |
Béla | 11 km | (Slavic female name) |
Bel'kovich | 214 km | Igor V. Bel'kovich |
Bell | 86 km | Alexander Graham Bell |
Bellinsgauzen | 63 km | Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen |
Bellot | 17 km | Joseph Rene Bellot |
Belopol'skiy | 59 km | Aristarkh Belopolsky |
Belyaev | 54 km | Pavel Ivanovič Belyaev |
Benedict | 14 km | Francis Gano Benedict |
Bergman | 21 km | Torbern Olof Bergman |
Bergstrand | 43 km | Carl Östen Emanuel Bergstrand |
Berkner | 86 km | Lloyd Viel Berkner |
Berlage | 92 km | Hendrik Petrus Berlage |
Bernoulli | 47 km | Jacques Bernoulli |
Jean Bernoulli | ||
Berosus | 74 km | Berosus the Chaldean |
Berzelius | 50 km | Jons Jakob Berzelius |
Bessarion | 10 km | Johannes Bessarion |
Bessel | 15 km | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel |
Bettinus | 71 km | Mario Bettinus |
Bhabha | 64 km | Homi Jehangir Bhabha |
Bianchini | 38 km | Francesco Bianchini |
Biela | 76 km | Wilhelm von Biela |
Bilharz | 43 km | Theodore Maximillian Bilharz |
Billy | 45 km | Jacques de Billy |
Bingham | 33 km | Hiram Bingham III |
Biot | 12 km | Jean-Baptiste Biot |
Birkeland | 82 km | Olaf Kristian Birkeland |
Birkhoff | 345 km | George Birkhoff |
Birmingham | 92 km | John Birmingham |
Birt | 16 km | William Radcliff Birt |
Bjerknes | 48 km | Vilhelm Frimann Koren Bjerknes |
Black | 18 km | Joseph Black |
Blackett | 141 km | Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett |
Blagg | 5 km | Mary Adela Blagg |
Blancanus | 117 km | Giuseppe Biancani |
Blanchard | 40 km | Jean-Pierre Blanchard |
Blanchinus | 61 km | Giovanni Bianchini |
Blazhko | 54 km | Sergei N. Blazhko |
Bliss | 20 km | Nathaniel Bliss |
Bobillier | 6 km | Étienne Bobillier |
Bobone | 31 km | Jorge Bobone |
Bode | 18 km | Johann Elert Bode |
Boethius | 10 km | Boethius |
Boguslawsky | 97 km | Palon Heinrich Ludwig von Boguslawsky |
Bohnenberger | 33 km | Johann Gottlob Friedrich von Bohnenberger |
Bohr | 71 km | Niels Bohr |
Bok | 45 km | Priscilla Fairfield Bok |
Bart J. Bok | ||
Boltzmann | 76 km | Ludwig Boltzmann |
Bolyai | 135 km | Janos Bolyai |
Bombelli | 10 km | Raphael Bombelli |
Bondarenko | 30 km | Valentin Bondarenko |
Bonpland | 60 km | Aimé Bonpland |
Boole | 63 km | George Boole |
Borda | 44 km | Jean Charles Borda |
Borel | 4 km | Félix Édouard Émile Borel |
Boris | 10 km | (Russian male name) |
Borman | 50 km | Frank Borman |
Born | 14 km | Max Born |
Boscovich | 46 km | Rudjer Boscovich |
Bose | 91 km | Chandra Bose |
Boss | 47 km | Lewis Boss |
Bouguer | 22 km | Pierre Bouguer |
Boussingault | 142 km | Jean Baptiste Boussingault |
Bowditch | 40 km | Nathaniel Bowditch |
Bowen | 8 km | Ira S. Bowen |
Boyle | 57 km | Robert Boyle |
Brackett | 8 km | Frederick Sumner Brackett |
Bragg | 84 km | William Henry Bragg |
Brashear | 55 km | Dr. John Alfred Brashear |
Brayley | 14 km | Edward William Brayley |
Bredikhin | 59 km | Fedor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin |
Breislak | 49 km | Scipione Breislak |
Brenner | 97 km | Leo Brenner |
Brewster | 10 km | David Brewster |
Brianchon | 134 km | Charles Julien Brianchon |
Bridgman | 80 km | Percy Williams Bridgman |
Briggs | 37 km | Henry Briggs |
Brisbane | 44 km | Thomas Brisbane |
Bronk | 64 km | Detlev Wulf Bronk |
Brouwer | 158 km | Dirk Brouwer |
Luitzen E. J. Brouwer | ||
Brown | 34 km | Ernest William Brown |
Bruce | 6 km | Catherine Wolfe Bruce |
Brunner | 53 km | William Otto Brunner |
Buch | 53 km | Christian Leopold von Buch |
Buffon | 106 km | Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon |
Buisson | 56 km | Henri Buisson |
Bullialdus | 60 km | Ismael Bullialdus |
Bunsen | 52 km | Robert Bunsen |
Burckhardt | 56 km | Johann Karl Burckhardt |
Bürg | 39 km | Johann Tobias Bürg |
Burnham | 24 km | S. W. Burnham |
Büsching | 52 km | Anton Friedrich Büsching |
Butlerov | 40 km | Aleksandr Butlerov |
Buys-Ballot | 55 km | C. H. D. Buys Ballot |
Byrd | 93 km | Richard E. Byrd |
Byrgius | 87 km | Joost Burgi |
C
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
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C. Herschel | 13 km | Caroline Herschel |
C. Mayer | 38 km | Christian Mayer |
Cabannes | 80 km | Jean Cabannes |
Cabeus | 98 km | Niccolo Cabeo |
Cailleux | 50 km | Andre Cailleux |
Cajal | 9 km | Santiago Ramón y Cajal |
Cajori | 70 km | Florian Cajori |
Calippus | 32 km | Calippus of Cyzicus |
Cameron | 10 km | Robert Curry Cameron |
Campanus | 48 km | Giovanni Campano |
Campbell | 219 km | Leon Campbell |
William Wallace Campbell | ||
Cannizzaro | 56 km | Stanislao Cannizzaro |
Cannon | 56 km | Annie Jump Cannon |
Cantor | 0 km | Georg Cantor |
Moritz Cantor | ||
Capella | 90 km | Martianus Capella |
Capuanus | 59 km | Francesco Capuano Di Manfredonia |
Cardanus | 49 km | Girolamo Cardano |
Carlini | 10 km | Francesco Carlini |
Carlos | 4 km | (Spanish male name) |
Carmichael | 20 km | Leonard Carmichael |
Carnot | 126 km | Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot |
Carol | 117 km | (Latin female name) |
Carpenter | 59 km | James Carpenter |
Edwin F. Carpenter | ||
Carrel | 15 km | Alexis Carrel |
Carrillo | 16 km | Flores Nabor Carrillo |
Carrington | 30 km | Richard Christopher Carrington |
Cartan | 15 km | Élie Cartan |
Carver | 59 km | George Washington Carver |
Casatus | 108 km | Paolo Casati |
Cassegrain | 55 km | Giovanni Cassegrain |
Cassini | 56 km | Giovanni Domenico Cassini |
Jacques Cassini | ||
Catalán | 25 km | Miguel Ángel Catalán |
Catharina | 104 km | Saint Catherine of Alexandria |
Cauchy | 12 km | Augustin Louis Cauchy |
Cavalerius | 56 km | Buonaventura Cavalieri |
Cavendish | 56 km | Henry Cavendish |
Caventou | 3 km | Joseph Bienaime Caventou |
Cayley | 14 km | Arthur Cayley |
Celsius | 36 km | Anders Celsius |
Censorinus | 3 km | Censorinus |
Cepheus | 39 km | Cepheus (mythology) |
Chacornac | 51 km | Jean Chacornac |
Chadwick | 30 km | James Chadwick |
Chaffee | 49 km | Roger Chaffee |
Challis | 55 km | James Challis |
Chalonge | 30 km | Daniel Chalonge |
Chamberlin | 58 km | Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin |
Champollion | 58 km | Jean-François Champollion |
Chandler | 85 km | Seth Carlo Chandler |
Chang Heng | 43 km | Zhang Heng |
Chang-Ngo | 3 km | (Chinese female name) |
Chant | 33 km | Clarence Augustus Chant |
Chaplygin | 137 km | Sergej Alekseevich Chaplygin |
Chapman | 71 km | Sydney Chapman |
Chappe | 59 km | Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche |
Chappell | 80 km | James F. Chappell |
Charles | 1 km | (French male name) |
Charlier | 99 km | Carl Charlier |
Chaucer | 45 km | Geoffrey Chaucer |
Chauvenet | 81 km | William Chauvenet |
Chebyshev | 178 km | Pafnuty Chebyshev |
Chanier | 13 km | Andre Marie Chenier |
Chernyshev | 58 km | Nikolaj G. Chernyshev |
Chevallier | 52 km | Temple Chevallier |
Ching-Te | 4 km | (Chinese male name) |
Chladni | 13 km | Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni |
Chrétien | 88 km | Henri Chrétien |
Christel | 2 km | (German female name) |
Cichus | 40 km | Franceso Degli Stabili Cichus |
Clairaut | 75 km | Alexis Clairaut |
Clark | 49 km | Alvan Clark |
Alvan Graham Clark | ||
Clausius | 24 km | Rudolf Clausius |
Clavius | 245 km | Christopher Klau Clavius |
Cleomedes | 125 km | Cleomedes |
Cleostratus | 62 km | Cleostratus |
Clerke | 6 km | Agnes Mary Clerke |
Coblentz | 33 km | William Weber Coblentz |
Cockcroft | 93 km | John Douglas Cockcroft |
Collins | 2 km | Michael Collins (astronaut) |
Colombo | 76 km | Christopher Columbus |
Compton | 182 km | Arthur Holly Compton |
Karl T. Compton | ||
Comrie | 59 km | Leslie John Comrie |
Comstock | 72 km | George Cary Comstock |
Condon | 34 km | Edward Uhler Condon |
Condorcet | 74 km | Jean de Condorcet |
Congreve | 57 km | William Congreve |
Conon | 21 km | Conon of Samos |
Cook | 46 km | James Cook |
Cooper | 36 km | John C. Cooper |
Copernicus | 107 km | Nicholas Copernicus |
Cori | 65 km | Gerty Theresa Cori |
Coriolis | 78 km | Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis |
Couder | 21 km | Andre Couder |
Coulomb | 89 km | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb |
Courtney | 1 km | (English masculine name) |
Cremona | 85 km | Luigi Cremona |
Crile | 9 km | George Crile |
Crocco | 75 km | Gaetano Arturo Crocco |
Crommelin | 94 km | Andrew Crommelin |
Crookes | 49 km | William Crookes |
Crozier | 22 km | Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier |
Crüger | 45 km | Peter Crüger |
Ctesibius | 36 km | Ctesibius |
Curie | 151 km | Pierre Curie |
Curtis | 2 km | Heber Doust Curtis |
Curtius | 95 km | Albert Curtz |
Cusanus | 63 km | Nikolaus Krebs Cusanus |
Cuvier | 75 km | Georges Cuvier |
Cyrano | 80 km | Cyrano de Bergerac |
Cyrillus | 98 km | Saint Cyril |
Cysatus | 48 km | Jean-Baptiste Cysat |
D
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
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da Vinci | 37 km | Leonardo da Vinci |
Daedalus | 93 km | Daedalus |
Dag | 0 km | (Scandinavian male name) |
Daguerre | 46 km | Louis Daguerre |
Dale | 22 km | Henry Hallett Dale |
D'Alembert | 248 km | Jean le Rond d'Alembert |
Dalton | 60 km | John Dalton |
Daly | 17 km | Reginald Aldworth Daly |
Damoiseau | 36 km | Marie-Charles Damoiseau |
Daniell | 29 km | John Frederick Daniell |
Danjon | 71 | André Danjon |
Dante | 54 km | Dante Alighieri |
Darney | 15 km | Maurice Darney |
D'Arrest | 30 km | Heinrich d'Arrest |
D'Arsonval | 28 km | Jacques Arsene d'Arsonval |
Darwin | 120 km | Charles Darwin |
Das | 38 km | Amil K. Das |
Daubrée | 14 km | Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée |
Davisson | 87 km | Clinton Joseph Davisson |
Davy | 34 km | Humphry Davy |
Dawes | 18 km | William Rutter Dawes |
Dawson | 45 km | Bernhard H. Dawson |
De Forest | 57 km | Lee de Forest |
de Gasparis | 30 km | Annibale de Gasparis |
de Gerlache | 32.4 km | Adrien de Gerlache |
De La Rue | 134 km | Warren de la Rue |
De Moraes | 53 km | Abrahão De Moraes |
De Morgan | 10 km | Augustus de Morgan |
De Roy | 43 km | Felix De Roy |
De Sitter | 64 km | Willem de Sitter |
De Vico | 20 km | Francesco de Vico |
De Vries | 59 km | Hugo de Vries |
Debes | 30 km | Ernest Debes |
Debus | 20 km | Kurt Heinrich Debus |
Debye | 142 km | Peter Debye |
Dechen | 12 km | Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen |
Delambre | 51 km | Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre |
Delaunay | 46 km | Charles-Eugène Delaunay |
Delia | 2 km | (Greek female name) |
Delisle | 25 km | Joseph Nicolas Delisle |
Dellinger | 81 km | John Howard Dellinger |
Delmotte | 32 km | Gabriel Delmotte |
Delporte | 45 km | Eugène Joseph Delporte |
Deluc | 46 km | Jean-André Deluc |
Dembowski | 26 km | Ercole Dembowski |
Democritus | 39 km | Democritus |
Demonax | 128 km | Demonax |
Denning | 44 km | William Frederick Denning |
Desargues | 85 km | Gerard Desargues |
Descartes | 48 km | René Descartes |
Deseilligny | 6 km | Jules Alfred Pierrot Deseilligny |
Deslandres | 256 km | Henri-Alexandre Deslandres |
Deutsch | 66 km | Armin J. Deutsch |
Dewar | 50 km | Sir James Dewar |
Diana | 50 km | (Latin feminine name) |
Diderot | 20 km | Denis Diderot |
Dionysius | 18 km | St. Dionysius the Areopagite |
Diophantus | 17 km | Diophantus |
Dirichlet | 47 km | Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet |
Dobrovol'skiy | 38 km | Georgiy T. Dobrovolskiy |
Doerfel | 68 km | Georg Samuel Doerfel |
Dollond | 11 km | John Dollond |
Donati | 36 km | Giovanni Battista Donati |
Donna | 2 km | (Italian female name) |
Donner | 58 km | Anders Donner |
Doppelmayer | 63 km | Johann Gabriel Doppelmayer |
Doppler | 110 km | Christian Doppler |
Douglass | 49 km | Andrew Ellicott Douglass |
Dove | 30 km | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove |
Draper | 8 km | Henry Draper |
Drebbel | 30 km | Cornelius Drebbel |
Dreyer | 61 km | John L. E. Dreyer |
Drude | 24 km | Paul Karl Ludwig Drude |
Dryden | 51 km | Hugh Latimer Dryden |
Drygalski | 149 km | Erich Dagobert von Drygalski |
Dubyago | 51 km | Dmitrij I. Dubyango |
Alexander D. Dubyago | ||
Dufay | 39 km | Jean Dufay |
Dugan | 50 km | Raymond Smith Dugan |
Dumas | 16 km | Alexandre Dumas |
Dunér | 62 km | Nils Christoffer Dunér |
Dunthorne | 15 km | Richard Dunthorne |
Dyson | 63 km | Sir Frank Watson Dyson |
Dziewulski | 63 km | Wladyslaw Dziewulski |
E
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
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Eckert | 2 km | Wallace John Eckert |
Eddington | 118 km | Arthur Stanley Eddington |
Edison | 62 km | Thomas Edison |
Edith | 8 km | (English female name) |
Egede | 37 km | Hans Egede |
Ehrlich | 30 km | Paul Ehrlich |
Eichstadt | 49 km | Lorentz Eichstadt |
Eijkman | 54 km | Christiaan Eijkman |
Eimmart | 46 km | Georg Christoph Eimmart |
Einstein | 198 km | Albert Einstein |
Einthoven | 69 km | Willem Einthoven |
Elger | 21 km | Thomas Gwyn Elger |
Ellerman | 47 km | Ferdinand Ellerman |
Ellison | 36 km | Mervyn Archdall Ellison |
Elmer | 36 km | Charles W. Elmer |
Elvey | 74 km | Christian Thomas Elvey |
Emden | 111 km | J. Robert Emden |
Encke | 28 km | Johann Franz Encke |
Endymion | 123 km | Endymion |
Engel'gardt | 43 km | Vasilij P. Engel'gardt (Engelhardt) |
Eötvös | 99 km | Roland von Eötvös |
Epigenes | 55 km | Epigenes |
Epimenides | 27 km | Epimenides |
Eratosthenes | 58 km | Eratosthenes |
Erro | 61 km | Luis Enrique Erro |
Esclangon | 15 km | Ernest Esclangon |
Esnault-Pelterie | 790 km | Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie |
Espin | 75 km | Rev. Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin |
Euclides | 11 km | Euclid |
Euctemon | 62 km | Euctemon |
Eudoxus | 67 km | Eudoxus |
Euler | 27 km | Leonhard Euler |
Evans | 67 km | Sir Arthur Evans |
Evdokimov | 50 km | Nikolaj N. Evdokimov |
Evershed | 66 km | John Evershed |
Ewen | 3 km | (Gaelic male name) |
F
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
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Fabbroni | 10 km | Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni |
Fabricius | 78 km | David Fabricius |
Fabry | 184 km | Charles Fabry |
Fahrenheit | 6 km | Gabriel Fahrenheit |
Fairouz | 3 km | (Arabic female name) |
Faraday | 69 km | Michael Faraday |
Faustini | 39 km | Arnoldo Faustini |
Fauth | 12 km | Philipp Johann Heinrich Fauth |
Faye | 36 km | Hervé Faye |
Fechner | 63 km | Gustav Theodor Fechner |
Fedorov | 6 km | A. P. Fedorov |
Felix | 1 km | (Latin male name) |
Fényi | 38 km | Gyula Fényi |
Feoktistov | 23 km | Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov |
Fermat | 38 km | Pierre de Fermat |
Fermi | 183 km | Enrico Fermi |
Fernelius | 65 km | Jean Fernel |
Fersman | 151 km | Aleksandr Fersman |
Fesenkov | 35 km | Vasiliy Grigor'evich Fesenkov |
Feuillée | 9 km | Louis Feuillée |
Finsch | 4 km | Otto Friedrich Hermann Finsch |
Finsen | 72 km | Niels Ryberg Finsen |
Firmicus | 56 km | Firmicus Maternus |
Firsov | 6 km | Georgij F. Firsov |
Fischer | 30 km | Hermann Emil Fischer |
Hans Fisher | ||
Fitzgerald | 110 km | George Francis Fitzgerald |
Fizeau | 111 km | Hippolyte Fizeau |
Flammarion | 74 km | Camille Flammarion |
Flamsteed | 20 km | John Flamsteed |
Fleming | 106 km | Alexander Fleming |
Williamina Fleming | ||
Florensky | 71 km | Kirill Pavlovich Florensky |
Focas | 22 km | Ionnas Focas |
Fontana | 31 km | Francesco Fontana |
Fontenelle | 38 km | Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle |
Foster | 33 km | John Stuart Foster |
Foucault | 23 km | Léon Foucault |
Fourier | 51 km | Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier |
Fowler | 146 km | Alfred Fowler |
Ralph H. Fowler | ||
Fox | 24 km | Philip Fox |
Fra Mauro | 101 km | Fra Mauro |
Fracastorius | 112 km | Girolamo Fracastoro |
Franck | 12 km | James Franck |
Franklin | 56 km | Benjamin Franklin |
Franz | 25 km | Julius Heinrich Franz |
Fraunhofer | 56 km | Joseph von Fraunhofer |
Fredholm | 14 km | Erik Ivar Fredholm |
Freud | 2 km | Sigmund Freud |
Freundlich | 85 km | Erwin Findlay-Freundlich |
Fridman | 102 km | Aleksandr Fridman (Friedmann) |
Froelich | 58 km | Jack E. Froelich |
Frost | 75 km | Edwin B. Frost |
Fryxell | 18 km | R. H. Fryxell |
Furnerius | 135 km | Georges Furner |
G
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
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G. Bond | 20 km | George Phillips Bond |
Gadomski | 65 km | Jan Gadomski |
Gagarin | 265 km | Yuri Gagarin |
Galen | 10 km | Claudius Galen |
Galilaei | 15 km | Galileo Galilei |
Galle | 21 km | Johann Gottfried Galle |
Galois | 222 km | Evariste Galois |
Galvani | 80 km | Luigi Galvani |
Gambart | 25 km | Jean Felix Gambart |
Gamow | 129 km | George Gamow |
Ganskiy | 43 km | Aleksey P. (Hansky) Ganskiy |
Ganswindt | 74 km | Hermann Ganswindt |
Garavito | 74 km | Julio Garavito Armero |
Gardner | 18 km | Irvine Clifton Gardner |
Gärtner | 115 km | Christian Gärtner |
Gassendi | 101 km | Pierre Gassendi |
Gaston | 2 km | (French male name) |
Gaudibert | 34 km | Casimir Marie Gaudibert |
Gauricus | 79 km | Luca Gaurico |
Gauss | 177 km | Carl Friedrich Gauss |
Gavrilov | 60 km | Aleksandr I. Gavrilov |
Igor B. Gavrilov | ||
Gay-Lussac | 26 km | Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac |
Geber | 44 km | Gabir Ben Aflah |
Geiger | 34 km | Johannes Hans Wilhelm Geiger |
Geissler | 16 km | Heinrich Geissler |
Geminus | 85 km | Geminus |
Gemma Frisius | 87 km | Reinier Jemma |
Gerard | 90 km | Alexander Gerard |
Gerasimovich | 86 km | Boris Gerasimovich |
Gernsback | 48 km | Hugo Gernsback |
Gibbs | 76 km | Josiah Willard Gibbs |
Gilbert | 112 km | Grove Karl Gilbert |
Gill | 66 km | David Gill |
Ginzel | 55 km | Friedrich Karl Ginzel |
Gioja | 41 km | Flavio Gioja |
Giordano Bruno | 22 km | Giordano Bruno |
Glaisher | 15 km | James Glaisher |
Glauber | 15 km | Johann Rudolph Glauber |
Glazenap | 43 km | Sergej Pavlovich von Glazenap |
Glushko | 43 km | Valentin Petrovitch Glushko |
Goclenius | 72 km | Rudolf Gockel |
Goddard | 89 km | Robert Goddard |
Godin | 34 km | Louis Godin |
Goldschmidt | 113 km | Hermann Goldschmidt |
Golgi | 5 km | Camillo Golgi |
Golitsyn | 36 km | Boris Borisovich Golitsyn |
Golovin | 37 km | Nicholas Erasmus Golovin |
Goodacre | 46 km | Walter Goodacre |
Gould | 34 km | Benjamin Gould |
Grace | 1 km | (English female name) |
Grachev | 35 km | Andrej D. Grachev |
Graff | 36 km | Kasimir Romuald Graff |
Grave | 40 km | Dmitriy A. Grave |
Ivan P. Grave | ||
Greaves | 13 km | William Michael Herbert Greaves |
Green | 65 km | George Green |
Gregory | 67 km | James Gregory |
Grigg | 36 km | John Grigg |
Grimaldi | 172 km | Francesco Grimaldi |
Grissom | 58 km | Gus Grissom |
Grotrian | 37 km | Walter Grotrian |
Grove | 28 km | Sir William Robert Grove |
Gruemberger | 93 km | Christoph Gruemberger |
Gruithuisen | 15 km | Franz von Gruithuisen |
Guericke | 63 km | Otto von Guericke |
Guillaume | 57 km | Charles Guillaume |
Gullstrand | 43 km | Allvar Gullstrand |
Gum | 54 km | Colin Gum |
Gutenberg | 74 km | Johann Gutenberg |
Guthnick | 36 km | Paul Guthnick |
Guyot | 92 km | Arnold Guyot |
Gyldén | 47 km | Hugo Gyldén |
H
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
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H. G. Wells | 114 km | H. G. Wells |
Hagecius | 76 km | Tadeás Hájek |
Hagen | 55 km | Johann Georg Hagen |
Hahn | 84 km | Friedrich von Hahn |
Otto Hahn | ||
Haidinger | 22 km | Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger |
Hainzel | 70 km | Paul Hainzel |
Haldane | 37 km | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane |
Hale | 83 km | George Ellery Hale |
William Hale | ||
Hall | 35 km | Asaph Hall |
Halley | 36 km | Edmond Halley |
Hamilton | 57 km | William Rowan Hamilton |
Hanno | 56 km | Hanno |
Hansen | 39 km | Peter Andreas Hansen |
Hansteen | 44 km | Christopher Hansteen |
Harden | 15 km | Arthur Harden |
Harding | 22 km | Karl Ludwig Harding |
Haret | 29 km | Spiru Haret |
Hargreaves | 16 km | Frederick James Hargreaves |
Harkhebi | 237 km | Harkhebi |
Harlan | 65 km | Harlan James Smith |
Harold | 2 km | (Scandinavian male name) |
Harpalus | 39 km | Harpalus |
Harriot | 56 km | Thomas Harriot |
Hartmann | 61 km | Johannes Franz Hartmann |
Hartwig | 79 km | Ernst Hartwig |
Harvey | 60 km | William Harvey |
Hase | 83 km | Johann Matthias Hase |
Hatanaka | 26 km | Takeo Hatanaka |
Hausen | 167 km | Christian August Hausen |
Hayford | 27 km | John Fillmore Hayford |
Hayn | 87 km | Friedrich Hayn |
Healy | 38 km | Roy Healy |
Heaviside | 165 km | Oliver Heaviside |
Hecataeus | 167 km | Hecataeus |
Hédervári | 69 km | Peter Héderv´ri |
Hedin | 150 km | Sven Hedin |
Heinrich | 6 km | Wladimir W. Heinrich |
Heinsius | 64 km | Gottfried Heinsius |
Heis | 14 km | Eduard Heis |
Helberg | 6 km | Robert J. Helberg |
Helicon | 24 km | Helicon |
Hell | 33 km | Maximilian Hell |
Helmert | 26 km | Friedrich Robert Helmert |
Helmholtz | 94 km | Hermann von Helmholtz |
Henderson | 47 km | Thomas Henderson |
Hendrix | 6 km | Don O. Hendrix |
Henry | 41 km | Joseph Henry |
Henry Frères | 42 km | Prosper Henry (Frères Henry) |
Henyey | 63 km | Louis G. Henyey |
Heraclitus | 90 km | Heraclitus |
Hercules | 69 km | Hercules |
Herigonius | 15 km | Pierre Herigone |
Hermann | 15 km | Jacob Hermann |
Hermite | 104 km | Charles Hermite |
Herodotus | 34 km | Herodotus |
Heron | 24 km | Heron (Hero) |
Herschel | 40 km | William Herschel |
Hertz | 90 km | Heinrich Hertz |
Hertzsprung | 591 km | Ejnar Hertzsprung |
Hesiodus | 42 km | Hesiod |
Hess | 88 km | Victor Franz Hess |
Harry Hammond Hess | ||
Hevelius | 115 km | Johannes Hevelius |
Heymans | 50 km | Corneille Jean François Heymans |
Heyrovsky | 15 km | Jaroslav Heyrovsky |
Hilbert | 151 km | David Hilbert |
Hill | 16 km | George William Hill |
Hind | 29 km | John Russell Hind |
Hippalus | 57 km | Hippalus |
Hipparchus | 138 km | Hipparchus |
Hippocrates | 60 km | Hippocrates |
Hirayama | 132 km | Kiyotsugu Hirayama |
Shin Hirayama | ||
Hoffmeister | 45 km | Cuno Hoffmeister |
Hogg | 38 km | Frank Scott Hogg |
Hohmann | 16 km | Walter Hohmann |
Holden | 47 km | Edward Singleton Holden |
Holetschek | 38 km | Johann Holetschek |
Hommel | 126 km | Johann Hommel |
Hooke | 36 km | Robert Hooke |
Hopmann | 88 km | Josef Hopmann |
Hornsby | 3 km | Thomas Hornsby |
Horrebow | 24 km | Peder Horrebow |
Horrocks | 30 km | Jeremiah Horrocks |
Hortensius | 14 km | Martin van den Hove |
Houtermans | 29 km | Friedrich Georg Houtermans |
Houzeau | 71 km | Jean Charles Houzeau (de Lehaie) |
Hubble | 80 km | Edwin Hubble |
Huggins | 65 km | William Huggins |
Humason | 4 km | Milton L. Humason |
Humboldt | 189 km | Wilhelm von Humboldt |
Hume | 23 km | David Hume |
Hutton | 50 km | James Hutton |
Huxley | 4 km | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Hyginus | 9 km | Gaius Julius Hyginus |
Hypatia | 40 km | Hypatia of Alexandria |
I
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
Ian | 1 km | (Scottish male name) |
Ibn Battuta | 11 km | Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta |
Ibn Firnas | 89 km | Abbas Ibn Firnas |
Ibn Yunus | 58 km | Abu Muhammad Ibn-Rushd (Averrdes) |
Ibn-Rushd | 32 km | Averroes |
Icarus | 96 km | Icarus (mythology) |
Ideler | 38 km | Christian Ludwig Ideler |
Idel'son | 60 km | Naum I. Idel'son |
Il'in | 13 km | N. Ja. Il'in |
Ina | 3 km | (Latin female name) |
Ingalls | 37 km | Albert L. Ingalls |
Inghirami | 91 km | Giovanni Inghirami |
Innes | 42 km | Robert T. A. Innes |
Ioffe | 86 km | Abram Fedorovich Ioffe |
Isabel | 1 km | (Spanish female name) |
Isaev | 90 km | Aleksei Mihailovich Isaev |
Isidorus | 42 km | St. Isidore of Seville |
Isis | 1 km | Isis (Egyptian goddess) |
Ivan | 4 km | (Russian male name) |
Izsak | 30 km | Imre Izsak |
J
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
J. Herschel | 165 km | John Herschel |
Jackson | 71 km | John Jackson |
Jacobi | 68 km | Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi |
Jansen | 23 km | Zacharias Janszoon |
Jansky | 72 km | Karl Jansky |
Janssen | 199 km | Pierre Janssen |
Jarvis | 38 km | Gregory Jarvis |
Jeans | 79 km | James Jeans |
Jehan | 5 km | (Turkish female name) |
Jenkins | 38 km | Louise Jenkins |
Jenner | 71 km | Edward Jenner |
Jerik | 1 km | (Scandinavian male name) |
Joliot | 164 km | Frederic Joliot-Curie |
Jomo | 7 km | (African male name) |
José | 2 km | (Spanish male name) |
Joule | 96 km | James Joule |
Joy | 5 km | Alfred H. Joy |
Jules Verne | 143 km | Jules Verne |
Julienne | 2 km | (French female name) |
Julius Caesar | 90 km | Julius Caesar |
K
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
Kaiser | 52 km | Frederik Kaiser |
Kamerlingh Onnes | 66 km | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes |
Kane | 54 km | Elisha Kent Kane |
Kant | 33 km | Immanuel Kant |
Kao | 34 km | Ping-Tse Kao |
Kapteyn | 49 km | Jacobus Kapteyn |
Karima | 3 km | (Arabic female name) |
Karpinskiy | 92 km | Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky |
Karrer | 51 km | Paul Karrer |
Kasper | 12 km | (Polish male name) |
Kästner | 108 km | Abraham Kästner |
Katchalsky | 32 km | Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky |
Kathleen | 5 km | (Irish female name) |
Kearons | 23 km | William M. Kearons |
Keeler | 160 km | James Edward Keeler |
Kekulé | 94 km | Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz |
Keldysh | 33 km | Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh |
Kepínski | 31 km | Felicjan Kepínski |
Kepler | 31 km | Johannes Kepler |
Khvol'son | 54 km | Orest Daniilovich Khvol'son |
Kibal'chich | 92 km | Nikolaj I. Kibal'chich |
Kidinnu | 56 km | Kidinnu |
Kies | 45 km | Johann Kies |
Kiess | 63 km | Carl Clarence Kiess |
Kimura | 28 km | Hisashi Kimura |
Kinau | 41 km | C. A. Kinau |
King | 76 km | Arthur S. King |
Edward S. King | ||
Kira | 3 km | (Russian female name) |
Kirch | 11 km | Gottfried Kirch |
Kircher | 72 km | Athanasius Kircher |
Kirchhoff | 24 km | Gustav Kirchhoff |
Kirkwood | 67 km | Daniel Kirkwood |
Klaproth | 119 km | Martin Heinrich Klaproth |
Klein | 44 km | Hermann Joseph Klein |
Kleymenov | 55 km | Ivan Terentyevich Kleymenov |
Klute | 75 km | Daniel O. Klute |
Knox-Shaw | 12 km | Harold Knox-Shaw |
Koch | 95 km | Robert Koch |
Kohlschütter | 53 km | Arnold Kohlschütter |
Kolhörster | 97 km | Werner Kolhörster |
Komarov | 78 km | Vladimir Komarov |
Kondratyuk | 108 km | Yuri Kondratyuk |
König | 23 km | Rudolf König |
Konoplev | 25 km | B.T. Konoplev |
Konstantinov | 75 km | Konstantin I. Konstantinov |
Kopff | 41 km | August Kopff |
Korolev | 437 km | Sergei Korolev |
Kosberg | 15 km | Semyon Ariyevich Kosberg |
Kostinskiy | 75 km | Sergey K. Kostinskiy |
Koval'skiy | 49 km | M. A. Koval'sky |
Kovalevskaya | 115 km | Sofia Kovalevskaya |
Kozyrev | 65 km | Nikolay A. Kozyrev |
Krafft | 51 km | Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft |
Kramarov | 20 km | G. M. Kramarov |
Kramers | 61 km | Hendrik Anton Kramers |
Krasnov | 40 km | Aleksander V. Krasnov |
Krasovskiy | 59 km | Feodosiy N. Krasovskiy |
Kreiken | 23 km | Edberg Adrian Kreiken |
Krieger | 22 km | Johann Nepomuk Krieger |
Krishna | 3 km | (Indian male name) |
Krogh | 19 km | Schack August Steenberg Krogh |
Krusenstern | 47 km | Baron von Adam Johann Krusenstern |
Krylov | 49 km | Aleksej Nikolaevich Krylov |
Kugler | 65 km | Franz Xaver Kugler |
Kuiper | 6 km | Gerard Peter Kuiper |
Kulik | 58 km | Leonid A. Kulik |
Kundt | 10 km | August Kundt |
Kunowsky | 18 km | George K. Kunowsky |
Kuo Shou Ching | 34 km | Kuo Shou Ching |
Kurchatov | 106 km | Igor Kurchatov |
L
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
La Caille | 67 km | Nicolas Louis de Lacaille |
La Condamine | 37 km | Charles Marie de La Condamine |
La Pérouse | 77 km | Jean-François de La Pérouse |
Lacchini | 58 km | Giovanni Lacchini |
Lacroix | 37 km | Sylvestre Francois de Lacroix |
Lade | 55 km | Heinrich Eduard von Lade |
Lagalla | 85 km | Giulio Cesare Lagalla |
Lagrange | 225 km | Joseph Louis Lagrange |
Lalande | 24 km | Joseph Jérôme Le François de Lalande |
Lallemand | 18 km | André Lallemend |
Lamarck | 100 km | Jean Lamarck |
Lamb | 106 km | Horace Lamb |
Lambert | 30 km | Johann Heinrich Lambert |
Lamé | 84 km | Gabriel Lamé |
Lamèch | 13 km | Felix Chemla Lamèch |
Lamont | 106 km | John Lamont |
Lampland | 65 km | Carl Otto Lampland |
Landau | 214 km | Lev Davidovich Landau |
Lander | 40 km | Richard Lemon Lander |
Landsteiner | 6 km | Karl Landsteiner |
Lane | 55 km | Jonathan Homer Lane |
Langemak | 97 km | Georgij E. Langemak |
Langevin | 58 km | Paul Langevin |
Langley | 59 km | Samuel Pierpont Langley |
Langmuir | 91 km | Irving Langmuir |
Langrenus | 127 km | Michel Florent van Langren |
Lansberg | 38 km | Philippe van Lansberg |
Larmor | 97 km | Sir Joseph Larmor |
Lassell | 23 km | William Lassell |
Laue | 87 km | Max von Laue |
Lauritsen | 52 km | Charles Christian Lauritsen |
Lavoisier | 70 km | Antoine Lavoisier |
Lawrence | 24 km | Ernest O. Lawrence |
Robert H. Lawrence | ||
Le Gentil | 128 km | Guillaume Le Gentil |
Le Monnier | 60 km | Pierre Charles Lemonnier |
Le Verrier | 20 km | Urbain Le Verrier |
Leakey | 12 km | Louis Leakey |
Leavitt | 66 km | Henrietta Swan Leavitt |
Lebedev | 102 km | Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev |
Lebedinskiy | 62 km | Aleksandr I. Lebedinskiy |
Lebesgue | 11 km | Henri Lebesgue |
Lee | 41 km | John Lee |
Leeuwenhoek | 125 km | Antony van Leeuwenhoek |
Legendre | 78 km | Adrien Marie Legendre |
Lehmann | 53 km | Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm Lehmann |
Leibniz | 245 km | Gottfried Leibniz |
Lemaître | 91 km | Georges Lemaître |
Lents | 21 km | H. F. Emil Lents (Lenz) |
Leonov | 33 km | Alexei Leonov |
Lepaute | 16 km | Nicole-Reine Etable de la Briere Lepaute |
Letronne | 116 km | Jean Antoine Letronne |
Leucippus | 56 km | Leucippus |
Leuschner | 49 km | Armin O. Leuschner |
Levi-Civita | 121 km | Tullio Levi-Civita |
Lewis | 42 km | Gilbert Newton Lewis |
Lexell | 62 km | Anders Johann Lexell |
Ley | 79 km | Willy Ley |
Licetus | 74 km | Fortunio Liceti |
Lichtenberg | 20 km | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
Lick | 31 km | James Lick |
Liebig | 37 km | Justus von Liebig |
Lilius | 61 km | Luigi Giglio |
Linda | 1 km | (Spanish female name) |
Lindbergh | 12 km | Charles Lindbergh |
Lindblad | 66 km | Bertil Lindblad |
Lindenau | 53 km | Bernhard von Lindenau |
Lindsay | 32 km | Eric Mervyn Lindsay |
Linné | 2 km | Carl von Linné |
Liouville | 16 km | Joseph Liouville |
Lippershey | 6 km | Hans Lippershey |
Lippmann | 160 km | Gabriel Lippmann |
Lipskiy | 80 km | Yuriy N. Lipskiy |
Litke | 39 km | Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke (Lütke) |
Littrow | 30 km | Johann Josef von Littrow |
Lobachevskiy | 84 km | Nikolai Lobachevsky |
Lockyer | 34 km | Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer |
Lodygin | 62 km | Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin |
Loewy | 24 km | Moritz Loewy |
Lohrmann | 30 km | Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann |
Lohse | 41 km | Oswald Lohse |
Lomonosov | 92 km | Mikhail Lomonosov |
Longomontanus | 157 km | Christian Sørensen Longomontanus |
Lorentz | 312 km | Hendrik Lorentz |
Louise | 0.8 km | (French female name) |
Louville | 36 km | Jacques D'Allonville , Chevalier de Louville |
Love | 84 km | Augustus Edward Hough Love |
Lovelace | 54 km | William Randolph Lovelace II |
Lovell | 34 km | James Lovell |
Lowell | 66 km | Percival Lowell |
Lubbock | 13 km | John William Lubbock |
Lubiniezky | 43 km | Stanislaus Lubiniezky |
Lucian | 7 km | Lucian of Samosata |
Lucretius | 63 km | Lucretius |
Ludwig | 23 km | Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig |
Lundmark | 106 km | Knut Emil Lundmark |
Luther | 9 km | Robert Luther |
Lyapunov | 66 km | Aleksandr Lyapunov |
Lyell | 32 km | Charles Lyell |
Lyman | 84 km | Theodore Lyman |
Lyot | 132 km | Bernard Lyot |
M
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
Mach | 180 km | Ernst Mach |
Maclaurin | 50 km | Colin Maclaurin |
Maclear | 20 km | Thomas Maclear |
MacMillan | 7 km | William Duncan MacMillan |
Macrobius | 64 km | Ambrosius Macrobius |
Mädler | 27 km | Johann Heinrich Mädler |
Maestlin | 7 km | Michael Maestlin |
Magelhaens | 40 km | Ferdinand Magellan |
Maginus | 194 km | Giovanni Antonio Magini |
Main | 46 km | Robert Main |
Mairan | 40 km | Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan |
Maksutov | 83 km | Dmitry Maksutov |
Malapert | 69 km | Charles Malapert |
Mallet | 58 km | Robert Mallet |
Malyy | 41 km | Aleksandr L. Malyy |
Mandel'shtam | 197 km | Leonid Isaakovich Mandel'shtam |
Manilius | 38 km | Manilius |
Manners | 15 km | Russell Henry Manners |
Manuel | 0.5 km | (Spanish male name) |
Manzinus | 98 km | Carlo Antonio Manzini |
Maraldi | 39 km | Giovanni Domenico Maraldi |
Jacques Philippe Maraldi | ||
Marci | 25 km | Jan Marek Marci von Kronland |
Marco Polo | 28 km | Marco Polo |
Marconi | 73 km | Guglielmo Marconi |
Marinus | 58 km | Marinus of Tyre |
Mariotte | 65 km | Edme Mariotte |
Marius | 41 km | Simon Marius |
Markov | 40 km | Aleksandr Vladimirovich Markov |
Andrei Andreevich Markov | ||
Marth | 6 km | Albert Marth |
Mary | 1 km | (English form of Hebrew female name) |
Maskelyne | 23 km | Nevil Maskelyne |
Mason | 33 km | Charles Mason |
Maunder | 55 km | Annie S. D. R. Maunder |
Edward Walter Maunder | ||
Maupertuis | 45 km | Pierre Louis de Maupertuis |
Maurolycus | 114 km | Francesco Maurolico |
Maury | 17 km | Matthew Fontaine Maury |
Antonia Maury | ||
Mavis | 1 km | (Scottish female name) |
Maxwell | 107 km | James Clerk Maxwell |
McAdie | 45 km | Alexander George McAdie |
McAuliffe | 19 km | Christa McAuliffe |
McClure | 23 km | Robert Le Mesurier McClure |
McDonald | 7 km | William Johnson McDonald |
Thomas Logie McDonald | ||
McKellar | 51 km | Andrew McKellar |
McLaughlin | 79 km | Dean Benjamin McLaughlin |
McMath | 86 km | Francis Charles McMath |
Robert Raynolds McMath | ||
McNair | 29 km | Ronald McNair |
McNally | 47 km | Paul A. McNally |
Mechnikov | 60 km | Il'ya Il'ich Mechnikov |
Mee | 126 km | Arthur Butler Phillips Mee |
Mees | 50 km | Charles Edward Kenneth Mees |
Meggers | 52 km | William F. Meggers |
Meitner | 87 km | Lise Meitner |
Melissa | 18 km | (Greek female name) |
Mendel | 138 km | Gregor Mendel |
Mendeleev | 313 km | Dmitry Mendeleev |
Menelaus | 26 km | Menelaus of Alexandria |
Menzel | 3 km | Donald Howard Menzel |
Mercator | 46 km | Gerardus Mercator |
Mercurius | 67 km | Mercury (god) |
Merrill | 57 km | Paul Merrill |
Mersenius | 84 km | Marin Mersenne |
Meshcherskiy | 65 km | Ivan V. Meshcherskiy |
Messala | 125 km | Messala |
Messier | 11 km | Charles Messier |
Metius | 87 km | Adriaan Adriaanszoon (known as Metius) |
Meton | 130 km | Meton |
Mezentsev | 89 km | Yurij B. Mezentsev |
Michael | 180 km | (English male name) |
Michelson | 123 km | Albert A. Michelson |
Milankovic | 101 km | Milutin Milankovic |
Milichius | 12 km | Jacob Milich |
Miller | 61 km | William Allen Miller |
Millikan | 98 km | Robert Millikan |
Mills | 32 km | Mark Muir Mills |
Milne | 272 km | E. Arthur Milne |
Mineur | 73 km | Henri Mineur |
Minkowski | 113 km | Hermann Minkowski |
Rudolph Minkowski | ||
Minnaert | 125 km | Marcel Minnaert |
Mitchell | 30 km | Maria Mitchell |
Mitra | 92 km | Shishirkumar K. Mitra |
Möbius | 50 km | August Möbius |
Mohorovičić | 51 km | Andrija Mohorovicic |
Moigno | 36 km | François Napoléon Marie Moigno |
Moiseev | 59 km | Nikolaj D. Moiseev |
Moissan | 21 km | Henri Moissan |
Moltke | 6 km | Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke |
Monge | 36 km | Gaspard Monge |
Monira | 2 km | (Arabic female name) |
Montanari | 76 km | Geminiano Montanari |
Montgolfier | 88 km | Montgolfier brothers |
Moore | 54 km | Joseph Haines Moore |
Moretus | 111 km | Théodore Moretus |
Morley | 14 km | Edward Williams Morley |
Morozov | 42 km | Nikolaj A. Morozov |
Morse | 77 km | Samuel Morse |
Moseley | 90 km | Henry Moseley |
Mösting | 24 km | Johan Sigismund von Mösting |
Mouchez | 81 km | Amédée Mouchez |
Moulton | 49 km | Forest Ray Moulton |
Müller | 22 km | Karl Müller |
Murakami | 45 km | Harutaro Murakami |
Murchison | 57 km | Roderick Murchison |
Mutus | 77 km | Vincente Mut (Muth) |
N
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
Nagaoka | 46 km | Hantaro Nagaoka |
Nansen | 104 km | Fridtjof Nansen |
Naonobu | 34 km | Naonobu Ajima |
Nasireddin | 52 km | Nasir al-Din al-Tusi |
Nasmyth | 76 km | James Nasmyth |
Nassau | 76 km | Jason J. Nassau |
Natasha | 12 km | (Russian female name) |
Naumann | 9 km | Karl Friedrich Naumann |
Neander | 50 km | Michael Neumann Neander |
Nearch | 75 km | Nearch |
Necho | 30 km | Necho |
Neison | 53 km | Edmund Neville Neison |
Neper | 137 km | John Napier |
Nernst | 116 km | Walther Nernst |
Neujmin | 101 km | G. N. Neujmin |
Neumayer | 76 km | Georg Balthasar von Neumayer |
Newcomb | 41 km | Simon Newcomb |
Newton | 78 km | Isaac Newton |
Nicholson | 38 km | Seth Barnes Nicholson |
Nicolai | 42 km | Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai |
Nicollet | 15 km | Jean Nicholas Nicollet |
Nielsen | 9 km | Axel V. Nielsen |
Harald Herborg Nielsen | ||
Niepce | 57 km | Nicéphore Niepce |
Nijland | 35 km | Albertus Antonie Nijland |
Nikolaev | 41 km | Andrian Nikolayev |
Nishina | 65 km | Yoshio Nishina |
Nobel | 48 km | Alfred Nobel |
Nobile | 73 km | Umberto Nobile |
Nobili | 42 km | Leopoldo Nobili |
Nöggerath | 30 km | Johann Jakob Nöggerath |
Nonius | 69 km | Pedro Nuñez Salaciense (Petrus Nonius) |
Norman | 10 km | Robert Norman |
Nöther | 67 km | Emmy Noether |
Novalis | 8 km | Friedrich von Hardenberg Noval |
Numerov | 113 km | Boris Vasil'evich Numerov |
Nunn | 19 km | Joseph Nunn |
Nušl | 61 km | Frantisek Nušl |
O
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
Oberth | 60 km | Hermann Oberth |
Obruchev | 71 km | Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev |
O'Day | 71 km | Marcus O'Day |
Oenopides | 67 km | Oenopides of Chios |
Oersted | 42 km | Hans Christian Oersted |
Ohm | 64 km | Georg Simon Ohm |
Oken | 71 km | Lorenz Oken |
Olbers | 74 km | Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers |
Olcott | 81 km | William Tyler Olcott |
Olivier | 69 km | Charles Pollard Olivier |
Omar Khayyam | 70 km | Omar Khayyam |
Onizuka | 29 km | Ellison Onizuka |
Opelt | 48 km | Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt |
Oppenheimer | 208 km | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
Oppolzer | 40 km | Theodor von Oppolzen |
Oresme | 76 km | Nicolaus von Oresme |
Orlov | 81 km | Aleksandr V. Orlov |
Sergei Vladimirovich Orlov | ||
Orontius | 105 km | Oronce Finé |
Osama | 0.5 km | (Arabic male name) |
Osiris | 1 km | Osiris (Egyptian deity) |
Osman | 2 km | (Turkish male name) |
Ostwald | 104 km | Wilhelm Ostwald |
P
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
Palisa | 33 km | Johann Palisa |
Palitzsch | 41 km | Johann Palitzsch |
Pallas | 46 km | Peter Simon Pallas |
Palmieri | 40 km | Luigi Palmieri |
Paneth | 65 km | Friedrich Adolf Paneth |
Pannekoek | 71 km | Anton Pannekoek |
Papaleksi | 97 km | Nikolaj D. Papaleksi |
Paracelsus | 83 km | Paracelsus |
Paraskevopoulos | 94 km | John S. Paraskevopoulos |
Parenago | 93 km | Pavel Petrovich Parenago |
Parkhurst | 96 km | John Adelbert Parkhurst |
Parrot | 70 km | Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot |
Parry | 47 km | William Edward Parry |
Parsons | 40 km | John W. Parsons |
Pascal | 115 km | Blaise Pascal |
Paschen | 124 km | Friedrich Paschen |
Pasteur | 224 km | Louis Pasteur |
Patricia | 5 km | (English female name) |
Patsaev | 55 km | Viktor I. Patsaev |
Pauli | 84 km | Wolfgang Pauli |
Pavlov | 148 km | Ivan Pavlov |
Pawsey | 60 km | Joseph Pawsey |
Peary | 73 km | Robert Peary |
Pease | 38 km | Francis G. Pease |
Peek | 12 km | Bertrand Meigh Peek |
Peirce | 18 km | Benjamin Peirce |
Peirescius | 61 km | Nicholas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc |
Pentland | 56 km | Joseph Barclay Pentland |
Perel'man | 46 km | Yakov Isidorovich Perelman |
Perepelkin | 97 km | Evgenij J. Perepelkin |
Perkin | 62 km | Richard Scott Perkin |
Perrine | 86 km | Charles Dillon Perrine |
Petavius | 188 km | Denis Petau |
Petermann | 73 km | August Heinrich Petermann |
Peters | 15 km | Christian August Friedrich Peters |
Petit | 5 km | Alexis Therese Petit |
Petrie | 33 km | Robert Methven Petrie |
Petropavlovskiy | 63 km | Boris S. Petropavlovskiy |
Petrov | 49 km | Evgenij S. Petrov |
Pettit | 35 km | Edison Pettit |
Petzval | 90 km | Joseph von Petzval |
Phillips | 122 km | John Phillips |
Philolaus | 70 km | Philolaus of Croton |
Phocylides | 121 km | Johannes Phocylides Holwarda (Jan Fokker) |
Piazzi | 134 km | Giuseppe Piazzi |
Piazzi Smyth | 13 km | Charles Piazzi Smyth |
Picard | 22 km | Jean Picard |
Piccolomini | 87 km | Alessandro Piccolomini |
Pickering | 15 km | Edward Charles Pickering |
William Henry Pickering | ||
Pictet | 62 km | Marc-Auguste Pictet |
Pikel'ner | 47 km | Solomon Borisovich Pikelner |
Pilâtre | 50 km | F. De Rozier Pilâtre |
Pingré | 88 km | Alexandre Guy Pingré |
Pirquet | 65 km | Baron Guido von Pirquet |
Pitatus | 106 km | Pietro Pitati |
Pitiscus | 82 km | Bartholemaeus Pitiscus |
Pizzetti | 44 km | Paolo Pizzetti |
Plana | 44 km | Giovanni Plana |
Planck | 314 km | Max Planck |
Planté | 37 km | Gaston Planté |
Plaskett | 109 km | John Stanley Plaskett |
Plato | 109 km | Plato |
Playfair | 47 km | John Playfair |
Plinius | 43 km | Pliny the Elder |
Plummer | 73 km | Henry C. Plummer |
Plutarch | 68 km | Plutarch |
Poczobutt | 195 km | Martin Odlanicky Poczobutt |
Pogson | 50 km | Norman Robert Pogson |
Poincaré | 319 km | Henri Poincaré |
Poinsot | 68 km | Louis Poinsot |
Poisson | 42 km | Simeon Poisson |
Polybius | 41 km | Polybius |
Polzunov | 67 km | Ivan Ivanovics Polzunov |
Pomortsev | 23 km | Mikhail Mikhailovich Pomortsev |
Poncelet | 69 km | Jean-Victor Poncelet |
Pons | 41 km | Jean-Louis Pons |
Pontanus | 57 km | Giovanni Gioviani Pontano |
Pontécoulant | 91 km | Philippe Gustave Doulcet , Comte De Pontécoulant |
Popov | 65 km | Aleksander Stepanovich Popov |
C. Popov | ||
Porter | 51 km | Russell Williams Porter |
Posidonius | 95 km | Posidonius |
Poynting | 128 km | John Henry Poynting |
Prager | 60 km | Richard A. Prager |
Prandtl | 91 km | Ludwig Prandtl |
Priestley | 52 km | Joseph Priestley |
Prinz | 46 km | Wilhelm Prinz |
Priscilla | 1.8 km | (Latin female name) |
Proclus | 28 km | Proclus Diadochus |
Proctor | 52 km | Mary Proctor |
Protagoras | 21 km | Protagoras |
Ptolemaeus | 164 km | Ptolemy |
Puiseux | 24 km | Pierre Puiseux |
Pupin | 2 km | Mihajlo Pupin |
Purbach | 115 km | Georg Purbach |
Purkynĕ | 48 km | Jan Purkinje |
Pythagoras | 142 km | Pythagoras |
Pytheas | 20 km | Pytheas |
Q
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
Quetelet | 55 km | Adolphe Quetelet |
R
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
Rabbi Levi | 81 km | Levi Ben Gershon |
Racah | 63 km | Giulio Racah |
Raimond | 70 km | J. J. Raimond Jr. |
Raman | 10 km | Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman |
Ramsay | 81 km | William Ramsay |
Ramsden | 24 km | Jesse Ramsden |
Rankine | 8 km | William John Macquorn Rankine |
Raspletin | 48 km | Aleksandr Andreyevich Raspletin |
Ravi | 2.5 km | (Indian language male name) |
Rayet | 27 km | Georges Rayet |
Rayleigh | 114 km | Lord Rayleigh |
Razumov | 70 km | Vladimir V. Razumov |
Réaumur | 52 km | René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur |
Recht | 20 km | Albert W. Recht |
Regiomontanus | 108 km | Regiomontanus |
Regnault | 46 km | Henri Victor Regnault |
Reichenbach | 71 km | Georg von Reichenbach |
Reimarus | 48 km | Nicolai Reymers Baer |
Reiner | 29 km | Vincentio Reinieri |
Reinhold | 42 km | Erasmus Reinhold |
Repsold | 109 km | Johann Georg Repsold |
Resnik | 20 km | Judith Resnik |
Respighi | 18 km | Lorenzo Respighi |
Rhaeticus | 45 km | Georg Joachim Rheticus |
Rheita | 70 km | Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita |
Riccioli | 139 km | Giovanni Battista Riccioli |
Riccius | 71 km | Matteo Ricci |
Ricco | 65 km | Annibale Ricco |
Richards | 16 km | Theodore William Richards |
Richardson | 141 km | Owen Willans Richardson |
Riedel | 47 km | Klaus Riedel |
Riemann | 163 km | Bernhard Riemann |
Ritchey | 24 km | George Willis Ritchey |
Rittenhouse | 26 km | David Rittenhouse |
Ritter | 29 km | Karl Ritter |
August Ritter | ||
Ritz | 51 km | Walter Ritz |
Robert | 1 km | (English male name) |
Roberts | 89 km | Alexander William Roberts |
Sir Isaac Roberts | ||
Robertson | 88 km | Howard Percy Robertson |
Robinson | 24 km | John Thomas Romney Robinson |
Rocca | 89 km | Giovanni Antonio Rocca |
Rocco | 4 km | (Italian male name) |
Roche | 160 km | Édouard Roche |
Romeo | 8 km | (Italian male name) |
Römer | 39 km | Ole Rømer |
Röntgen | 126 km | Wilhelm Röntgen |
Rosa | 1 km | (Spanish female name) |
Rosenberger | 95 km | Otto August Rosenberger |
Ross | 24 km | James Clark Ross |
Frank E. Ross | ||
Rosse | 11 km | Lord Rosse |
Rosseland | 75 km | Svein Rosseland |
Rost | 48 km | Leonhard Rost |
Rothmann | 42 km | Christopher Rothmann |
Rowland | 171 km | Henry Augustus Rowland III |
Rozhdestvenskiy | 177 km | Dmitriy S. Rozhdestvenskiy |
Rumford | 61 km | Count Rumford |
Runge | 38 km | Carle David Tolmé Runge |
Russell | 103 km | Henry Norris Russell |
John Russell | ||
Ruth | 3 km | (Hebrew female name) |
Rutherford | 13 km | Ernest Rutherford |
Rutherfurd | 48 km | Lewis Morris Rutherfurd |
Rydberg | 49 km | Johannes Rydberg |
Rynin | 75 km | Nikolaj A. Rynin |
S
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
Sabatier | 10 km | Paul Sabatier |
Sabine | 30 km | Edward Sabine |
Sacrobosco | 98 km | Johannes Sacrobuschus (John Holywood) |
Saenger | 75 km | Eugen Saenger |
Šafařík | 27 km | Vojtech Šafařík |
Saha | 99 km | Meghnad Saha |
Samir | 2 km | (Arabic male name) |
Sampson | 1 km | Ralph Allen Sampson |
Sanford | 55 km | Roscoe F. Sanford |
Santbech | 64 km | Daniel Santbech Noviomagus |
Santos-Dumont | 8 km | Alberto Santos-Dumont |
Sarabhai | 7 km | Vikram Sarabhai |
Sarton | 69 km | George A. L. Sarton |
Sasserides | 90 km | Gellio Sasceride |
Saunder | 44 km | Samuel Arthur Saunder |
Saussure | 54 km | Horace-Bénédict de Saussure |
Scaliger | 84 km | Joseph Justus Scaliger |
Schaeberle | 62 km | John Martin Schaeberle |
Scheele | 4 km | Carl Wilhelm Scheele |
Scheiner | 110 km | Christopher Scheiner |
Schiaparelli | 24 km | Giovanni Schiaparelli |
Schickard | 206 km | Wilhelm Schickard |
Schiller | 180 km | Julius Schiller |
Schjellerup | 62 km | Hans Carl Frederik Christian Schjellerup |
Schlesinger | 97 km | Frank Schlesinger |
Schliemann | 80 km | Heinrich Schliemann |
Schlüter | 89 km | Heinrich Schlüter |
Schmidt | 11 km | Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt |
Bernhard Schmidt | ||
Otto Y. Schmidt | ||
Schneller | 54 km | Herbert Schneller |
Schomberger | 85 km | Georg Schomberger |
Schönfeld | 25 km | Eduard Schönfeld |
Schorr | 53 km | Richard Schorr |
Schrödinger | 312 km | Erwin Schrödinger |
Schröter | 35 km | Johann Hieronymus Schröter |
Schubert | 54 km | Theodor Friedrich von Schubert |
Schumacher | 60 km | Heinrich Christian Schumacher |
Schuster | 108 km | Arthur Schuster |
Schwabe | 25 km | Samuel Heinrich Schwabe |
Schwarzschild | 212 km | Karl Schwarzschild |
Scobee | 40 km | Dick Scobee |
Scoresby | 55 km | William Scoresby |
Scott | 103 km | Robert F. Scott |
Seares | 110 km | Frederick H. Seares |
Secchi | 22 km | Angelo Secchi |
Sechenov | 62 km | Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov |
Seeliger | 8 km | Hugo Hans Ritter von Seeliger |
Segers | 17 km | Carlos Segers |
Segner | 67 km | Johann Andreas von Segner |
Seidel | 62 km | Philipp Ludwig von Seidel |
Seleucus | 43 km | Seleucus |
Seneca | 46 km | Seneca the Younger |
Seyfert | 110 km | Carl Seyfert |
Shackleton | 19 km | Ernest Shackleton |
Shahinaz | 15 km | (Turkish female name) |
Shaler | 48 km | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler |
Shapley | 23 km | Harlow Shapley |
Sharonov | 74 km | Vsevolod Vasilievich Sharonov |
Sharp | 39 km | Abraham Sharp |
Shatalov | 21 km | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov |
Shayn | 93 km | Grigory Abramovich Shajn |
Sheepshanks | 25 km | Anne Sheepshanks |
Sherrington | 18 km | Charles Scott Sherrington |
Shi Shen | 43 km | Shi Shen |
Shirakatsi | 51 km | Anania Shirakatsi |
Shoemaker | 50.9 km | Eugene Shoemaker |
Short | 70 km | James Short |
Shternberg | 70 km | Pavel K. Shternberg (Sternberg) |
Shuckburgh | 38 km | George Shuckburgh |
Shuleykin | 15 km | M. V. Shuleykin |
Siedentopf | 61 km | Heinrich Siedentopf |
Sierpinski | 69 km | Waclaw Sierpinski |
Sikorsky | 98 km | Igor Sikorsky |
Silberschlag | 13 km | Johann Esaias Silberschlag |
Simpelius | 70 km | Hugh Sempill |
Sinas | 11 km | Simon Sinas |
Sirsalis | 42 km | Gerolamo Sersale |
Sisakyan | 34 km | Norajr Martirosovich Sisakyan |
Sita | 2 km | (Indian female name) |
Sklodowska | 127 km | Marie Curie |
Slipher | 69 km | Earl C. Slipher |
Vesto Slipher | ||
Slocum | 13 km | Frederick Slocum |
Smith | 34 km | Michael J. Smith |
Smithson | 5 km | James Smithson |
Smoluchowski | 83 km | Marian Smoluchowski |
Snellius | 82 km | Willebrord Snell |
Sniadecki | 43 km | Jan Sniadecki |
Soddy | 42 km | Frederick Soddy |
Somerville | 15 km | Mary Fairfax Somerville |
Sommerfeld | 169 km | Arnold Sommerfeld |
Sömmering | 28 km | Samuel Thomas Sömmering |
Sophocles | 0 km | Sophocles |
Soraya | 2 km | (Persian female name) |
Sosigenes | 17 km | Sosigenes |
South | 104 km | James South |
Spallanzani | 32 km | Lazzaro Spallanzani |
Spencer Jones | 85 km | Harold Spencer Jones |
Spörer | 27 km | Gustav Spörer |
Spurr | 13 km | Josiah Edward Spurr |
St. John | 68 km | Charles E. St. John |
Stadius | 69 km | Jan Stade |
Stark | 49 km | Johannes Stark |
Stearns | 36 km | Carl Leo Stearns |
Stebbins | 131 km | Joel Stebbins |
Stefan | 125 km | Josef Stefan |
Stein | 33 km | Johan Willem Jakob Antoon Stein |
Steinheil | 67 km | Karl August von Steinheil |
Steklov | 36 km | Vladimir Andreevich Steklov |
Stella | 1 km | (Latin female name) |
Steno | 31 km | Nicolaus Steno |
Sternfeld | 100 km | Ary A. Sternfeld |
Stetson | 64 km | Harlan T. Stetson |
Stevinus | 74 km | Simon Stevin |
Stewart | 13 km | John Quincy Stewart |
Stiborius | 43 km | Andreas Stoberl |
Stöfler | 126 km | Johannes Stöffler |
Stokes | 51 km | George Stokes |
Stoletov | 42 km | Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov |
Stoney | 45 km | George Johnstone Stoney |
Störmer | 69 km | Fredrik Carl Mülertz Störmer |
Strabo | 55 km | Strabo |
Stratton | 70 km | Frederick John Marrion Stratton |
Street | 57 km | Thomas Street |
Strömgren | 61 km | Elis Strömgren |
Struve | 164 km | Otto Wilhelm von Struve |
Otto Struve | ||
Friedrich Struve | ||
Subbotin | 67 km | Mikhail Fedorovich Subbotin |
Suess | 8 km | Eduard Suess |
Sulpicius Gallus | 12 km | Sulpicius Gallus |
Sumner | 50 km | Thomas H. Sumner |
Sundman | 40 km | Karl Fritiof Sundman |
Sung-Mei | 5 km | (Chinese female name) |
Susan | 1 km | (English female name) |
Sverdrup | 35 km | Otto Sverdrup |
Swann | 42 km | William Francis Gray Swann |
Swasey | 23 km | Ambrose Swasey |
Swift | 10 km | Lewis Swift |
Sylvester | 58 km | James J. Sylvester |
Szilard | 122 km | Leó Szil´rd |
T
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
T. Mayer | 33 km | Tobias Mayer |
Tacchini | 40 km | Pietro Tacchini |
Tacitus | 39 km | Cornelius Tacitus |
Tacquet | 7 km | André Tacquet |
Taizo | 6 km | (Japanese male name) |
Talbot | 11 km | William Henry Fox Talbot |
Tamm | 38 km | Igor Tamm |
Tannerus | 28 km | Adam Tanner |
Taruntius | 56 km | Lucius Taruntius Firmanus |
Taylor | 42 km | Brook Taylor |
Tebbutt | 31 km | John Tebbutt |
Teisserenc | 62 km | Léon Teisserenc de Bort |
Tempel | 45 km | Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel |
Ten Bruggencate | 59 km | Paul ten Bruggencate |
Tereshkova | 31 km | Valentina Tereshkova |
Tesla | 43 km | Nikola Tesla |
Thales | 31 km | Thales of Miletus |
Theaetetus | 24 km | Theaetetus |
Thebit | 56 km | Thabit ibn Qurra |
Theiler | 7 km | Max Theiler |
Theon Junior | 17 km | Theon of Alexandria |
Theon Senior | 18 km | Theon of Smyrna |
Theophilus | 110 km | Theophilus |
Theophrastus | 9 km | Theophrastus |
Thiel | 32 km | Walter Thiel |
Thiessen | 66 km | E. Thiessen |
Thomson | 117 km | Joseph John Thomson |
Tikhomirov | 65 km | Nikolaj I. Tikhomirov |
Tikhov | 83 km | Gavrill A. Tikhov |
Tiling | 38 km | Reinhold Tiling |
Timaeus | 32 km | Timaeus |
Timiryazev | 53 km | Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev |
Timocharis | 33 km | Timocharis |
Tiselius | 53 km | Arne Tiselius |
Tisserand | 36 km | Félix Tisserand |
Titius | 73 km | Johann Daniel Titius |
Titov | 31 km | Gherman Titov |
Tolansky | 13 km | Samuel Tolansky |
Torricelli | 22 km | Evangelista Torricelli |
Toscanelli | 7 km | Paolo Toscanelli |
Townley | 18 km | Sidney Dean Townley |
Tralles | 43 km | Johann Georg Tralles |
Triesnecker | 26 km | Franz de Paula Triesnecker |
Trouvelot | 9 km | Étienne Léopold Trouvelot |
Trumpler | 77 km | Robert Julius Trumpler |
Tsander | 181 km | Friedrich Zander |
Tseraskiy | 56 km | Vitol'd Karlovic Tseraskiy (Ceraski) |
Tsinger | 44 km | Nikolaj Yakovlevich Tsinger (Zinger) |
Tsiolkovskiy | 185 km | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky |
Tsu Chung-Chi | 28 km | Zu Chongzhi |
Tucker | 7 km | Richard Hawley Tucker |
Turner | 11 km | Herbert Hall Turner |
Tycho | 102 km | Tycho Brahe |
Tyndall | 18 km | John Tyndall |
U
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
Ukert | 23 km | Friedrich August Ukert |
Ulugh Beigh | 54 km | Ulugh Beg |
Urey | 38 km | Harold Urey |
V
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
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Väisälä | 8 km | Yrjö Väisälä |
Valier | 67 km | Max Valier |
van Albada | 21 km | Gale Bruno van Albada |
Van Biesbroeck | 9 km | George Van Biesbroeck |
Van de Graaff | 233 km | Robert Van de Graaff |
Van den Bergh | 42 km | George van den Bergh |
van den Bos | 22 km | Willem Hendrik van den Bos |
Van der Waals | 104 km | Johannes Van der Waals |
Van Gent | 43 km | Hendrik Van Gent |
Van Maanen | 60 km | Adriaan Van Maanen |
van Rhijn | 46 km | Pieter Johannes van Rhijn |
Van Vleck | 31 km | Edward Burr Van Vleck |
Van Wijk | 32 km | Uco van Wijk |
van't Hoff | 92 km | Jacobus van 't Hoff |
Vasco da Gama | 83 km | Vasco da Gama |
Vashakidze | 44 km | Mikhail A. Vashakidze |
Vavilov | 98 km | Nikolaj Ivanovich Vavilov |
Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov | ||
Vega | 75 km | Jurij Vega |
Vendelinus | 131 km | Godefroid Wendelin |
Vening Meinesz | 87 km | Felix A. Vening Meinesz |
Ventris | 95 km | Michael Ventris |
Vera | 2 km | (Latin female name) |
Vernadskiy | 91 km | Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky |
Verne | 2 km | (Latin male name) |
Vertregt | 187 km | M. Vertregt |
Very | 5 km | Frank Washington Very |
Vesalius | 61 km | Vesalius |
Vestine | 96 km | Ernest Harry Vestine |
Vetchinkin | 98 km | Vladimir Petrovich Vetchinkin |
Vieta | 87 km | Francois Vieta |
Vil'ev | 45 km | Mikhail Anatol'evich Vil'ev |
Virchow | 16 km | Rudolph Ludwig Karl Virchow |
Virtanen | 44 km | Artturi Virtanen |
Vitello | 42 km | Erazmus Ciokek Witelo |
Vitruvius | 29 km | Marcus Pollio Vitruvius |
Viviani | 26 km | Vincenzo Viviani |
Vlacq | 89 km | Adriaan Vlacq |
Vogel | 26 km | Hermann Carl Vogel |
Volkov | 40 km | Vladislav Nikolajevic Volkov |
Volta | 123 km | Alessandro Volta |
Volterra | 52 km | Vito Volterra |
von Behring | 38 km | Emil von Behring |
von Békésy | 96 km | Georg von Békésy |
von Braun | 60 km | Wernher von Braun |
Von der Pahlen | 56 km | Baron Emanuel von der Pahlen |
Von Kármán | 180 km | Theodore von Kármán |
Von Neumann | 78 km | John Von Neumann |
Von Zeipel | 83 km | Edvard Hugo von Zeipel |
Voskresenskiy | 49 km | Leonid Alexandrovich Voskresenskiy |
W
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
W. Bond | 156 km | William Cranch Bond |
Walker | 32 km | Joseph Albert Walker |
Wallace | 26 km | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Wallach | 6 km | Otto Wallach |
Walther | 1 km | Bernard Walter (Walther) |
Wan-Hoo | 52 km | Wan Hu |
Wargentin | 84 km | Pehr Vilhelm Wargentin |
Warner | 35 km | Worcester Reed Warner |
Waterman | 76 km | Alan Tower Waterman |
Watson | 62 km | James Craig Watson |
Watt | 66 km | James Watt |
Watts | 15 km | Chester Burleigh Watts |
Webb | 21 km | Thomas William Webb |
Weber | 42 km | Wilhelm Weber |
Wegener | 88 km | Alfred Wegener |
Weierstrass | 33 km | Karl Weierstrass |
Weigel | 35 km | Erhard Weigel |
Weinek | 32 km | Ladislaus Weinek |
Weiss | 66 km | Edmund Weiss |
Werner | 70 km | Johann Werner |
Wexler | 51 km | Harry Wexler |
Weyl | 108 km | Hermann Weyl |
Whewell | 13 km | William Whewell |
White | 39 km | Edward White |
Wichmann | 10 km | Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann |
Widmannstätten | 46 km | Alois von Beckh-Widmannstätten |
Wiechert | 41 km | Emil Wiechert |
Wiener | 120 km | Norbert Wiener |
Wildt | 11 km | Rupert Wildt |
Wilhelm | 106 km | Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse |
Wilkins | 57 km | Hugh Percy Wilkins |
Williams | 36 km | Arthur Stanley Williams |
Wilsing | 73 km | Johannes Wilsing |
Wilson | 69 km | Alexander Wilson |
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson | ||
Ralph Elmer Wilson | ||
Winkler | 22 km | Johannes Winkler |
Winlock | 64 km | Joseph Winlock |
Winthrop | 17 km | John Winthrop |
Wöhler | 27 km | Friedrich Wöhler |
Wolf | 25 km | Maximilian Wolf |
Wollaston | 10 km | William Hyde Wollaston |
Woltjer | 46 km | Jan Woltjer |
Wood | 78 km | Robert Williams Wood |
Wright | 39 km | Frederick E. Wright |
Thomas Wright | ||
Willian H. Wright | ||
Wróblewski | 21 km | Sigmund von Wróblewski |
Wrottesley | 57 km | John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley |
Wurzelbauer | 88 km | Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer |
Wyld | 93 km | James Hart Wyld |
X
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
Xenophanes | 125 km | Xenophanes |
Xenophon | 25 km | Xenophon |
Y
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
Yablochkov | 99 km | Pavel Yablochkov |
Yakovkin | 37 km | A. A. Yakovkin |
Yamamoto | 76 km | Issei Yamamoto |
Yangel' | 8 km | Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel' |
Yerkes | 36 km | Charles Tyson Yerkes |
Yoshi | 1 km | (Japanese male name) |
Young | 71 km | Thomas Young |
Z
Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
---|---|---|
Zach | 70 km | Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach |
Zagut | 84 km | Abraham Ben Samuel Zagut |
Zähringer | 11 km | Joseph Zähringer |
Zanstra | 42 km | Herman Zanstra |
Zasyadko | 11 km | Alexander Dmitrievich Zasyadko |
Zeeman | 190 km | Pieter Zeeman |
Zelinskiy | 53 km | Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinskiy |
Zeno | 65 km | Zeno of Citium |
Zernike | 48 km | Frits Zernike |
Zhiritskiy | 35 km | Georgiy S. Zhiritskiy |
Zhukovskiy | 81 km | Nikolay Egorovich Zhukovskiy |
Zinner | 4 km | Ernst Zinner |
Zöllner | 47 km | Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner |
Zsigmondy | 65 km | Richard Adolf Zsigmondy |
Zucchius | 64 km | Niccolo Zucchi |
Zupus | 38 km | Giovanni Battista Zupi |
Zwicky | 150 km | Fritz Zwicky |
See also
- List of features on the Moon
- List of maria on the Moon
- List of mountains on the Moon
- List of valleys on the Moon
External link
Last updated: 12-31-2004 12:14:59