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Encyclopedia > 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.


References

  • Antonín Rükl, Atlas of the Moon, Kalmbach Books, 1990.
  • Ben Bussey and Paul Spudis, The Clementine Atlas of the Moon, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • Patrick Moore, The Moon, Rand McNally & Company, 1981.
Contents

0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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A

Crater Diameter Name Origin
Abbe 66 km Ernst Abbe
Abbot 10 km Charles Greeley Abbot
Abel 122 km Niels Henrik Abel
Abenezra 42 km Abraham ibn Ezra
Abetti 65 km Antonio Abetti
Giorgio Abetti
Abul Wáfa 55 km Abul Wáfa
Abulfeda 65 km Ismael Abul-fida
Acosta 13 km Cristobal Acosta
Adams 66 km John Couch Adams
Walter Sydney Adams
Charles Hitchcock Adams
Agatharchides 48 km Agatharchides
Agrippa 44 km Agrippa
Airy 36 km George Biddell Airy
Aitken 135 km Robert Aitken
Akis 2 km (Greek female name)
Alan 2 km (Irish male name)
Al-Bakri 12 km Abu Abdullah al-Bakri
Albategnius 114 km al-Batani
Al-Biruni 77 km al-Biruni
Alden 104 km Harold Alden
Alder 77 km Kurt Alder
Aldrin 3 km Buzz Aldrin
Alekhin 70 km Nikolai Alekhin
Alexander 81 km Alexander the Great
Alfraganus 20 km al Fargani
Alhazen 32 km Alhazen
Aliacensis 79 km Pierre d'Ailly
Al-Khwarizmi 65 km al-Khwarizmi
Almanon 49 km Abdalla Al Mamun
Al-Marrakushi 8 km Al-Marrakushi
Aloha 3 km (a Hawaiian greeting)
Alpetragius 39 km Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi
Alphonsus 108 km Alfonso X of Castile
Alter 64 km Dinsmore Alter
Ameghino 9 km Fiorino Ameghino
Amici 54 km Giovanni Amici
Ammonius 8 km Ammonius Saccas
Amontons 2 km Guillaume Amontons
Amundsen 101 km Roald Amundsen
Anaxagoras 50 km Anaxagoras
Anaximander 67 km Anaximander
Anaximenes 80 km Anaximenes
Andĕl 35 km Karel Andĕl
Anders 40 km William A. Anders
Anderson 109 km John August Anderson
Andersson 13 km Leif Erland Andersson
Andronov 16 km Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Andronov
Ango 1 km (African male name)
Ångström 9 km Anders Jonas Ångström
Ann 3 km (Hebrew female name)
Annegrit 1 km (German female name)
Ansgarius 94 km Saint Ansgar
Antoniadi 143 km Eugene Antoniadi
Anuchin 57 km Dmitry Nikolayevich Anuchin
Anville 10 km Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
Apianus 63 km Petrus Apianus
Apollo 537 km Apollo program
Apollonius 53 km Apollonius of Perga
Appleton 63 km Edward Victor Appleton
Arago 26 km François Arago
Aratus 10 km Aratus of Soli
Archimedes 82 km Archimedes
Archytas 31 km Archytas
Argelander 34 km Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander
Ariadaeus 11 km Philipus III Arrhidaeus
Aristarchus 40 km Aristarchus
Aristillus 55 km Aristillus
Aristoteles 87 km Aristoteles
Armiński 26 km Franciszek Armiński
Armstrong 4 km Neil Armstrong
Arnold 94 km Christoph Arnold
Arrhenius 40 km Svante Arrhenius
Artamonov 60 km Nikolay N. Artamonov
Artem'ev 67 km Vladimir Artemyev
Artemis 2 km Greek goddess
Artsimovich 8 km Lev Artsimovich
Aryabhata 22 km Aryabhata
Arzachel 96 km Arzachel
Asada 12 km Goryu Asada
Asclepi 42 km Giuseppe Asclepi
Ashbrook 156 km Joseph Ashbrook
Aston 43 km Francis William Aston
Atlas 87 km Atlas (mythology)
Atwood 29 km George Atwood
Autolycus 39 km Autolycus
Auwers 20 km Arthur Auwers
Auzout 32 km Adrien Auzout
Avery 9 km Oswald Theodore Avery
Avicenna 74 km Avicenna
Avogadro 139 km Amedeo Avogadro
Azophi 47 km Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi

B

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 Ivanovich 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 Jöns 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 Egbertus Jan 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
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 Francis 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


 

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