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List of craters on the Moon
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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| Crater | Diameter | Name Origin |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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: 10-24-2004 05:10:45