List of craters on the Moon, A–B

The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature maintained by the International Astronomical Union includes the diameter of the crater and the person the crater is named for.[1] Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages.

Lists of craters on the Moon
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

A

Crater Diameter Eponym
Abbe 66 km Ernst Abbe (1840–1905)
Abbot 10 km Charles Greeley Abbot (1872–1973)
Abel 122 km Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829)
Abenezra 42 km Abraham ibn Ezra (1092–1167)
Abetti 1.5 km Antonio Abetti (1846–1928)
Giorgio Abetti (1882–1982)
Abul Wáfa 55 km Abul Wáfa (940–998)
Abulfeda 65 km Ismael Abul-fida (1273–1331)
Acosta 13 km Cristobal Acosta (1515–1580)
Adams 66 km John Couch Adams (1819–1892)
Charles Hitchcock Adams (1868–1951)
Walter Sydney Adams (1876–1956)
Aepinus 17.5 km Franz Aepinus (1724–1802)
Agatharchides 48 km Agatharchides (died c. 150 BC)
Agrippa 44 km Agrippa (fl. 92 AD)
Airy 36 km George Biddell Airy (1801–1892)
Aitken 135 km Robert Aitken (1864–1951)
Akis 2 km (Greek female name)
Alan 2 km (Celtic male name)
Al-Bakri 12 km Abu Abdullah al-Bakri (1010–1094)
Albategnius 114 km al-Batani (850–929)
Albert 0.1 km German male name
Al-Biruni 77 km al-Biruni (973–1048)
Alden 104 km Harold Alden (1890–1964)
Alder 77 km Kurt Alder (1902–1958)
Aldrin 3 km Buzz Aldrin (born 1930)
Alekhin 70 km Nikolai Alekhin (1913–1964)
Alexander 81 km Alexander the Great (356–323 BC)
Alfraganus 20 km Alfraganus (died c. 840)
Alhazen 32 km Alhazen (987–1038)
Aliacensis 79 km Pierre d'Ailly (1350–1420)
Al-Khwarizmi 65 km al-Khwarizmi (died c. 825)
Almanon 49 km Abdalla Al Mamun (786–833)
Al-Marrakushi 8 km Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi (fl. c. 1281–82 AD)
Aloha 3 km (a Hawaiian greeting)
Alpetragius 39 km Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi (died c. 1100)
Alphonsus 108 km Alfonso X of Castile (1223–1284)
Alter 64 km Dinsmore Alter (1888–1968)
Ameghino 9 km Fiorino Ameghino (1854–1911)
Amici 54 km Giovanni Amici (1786–1863)
Ammonius 8 km Ammonius Hermiae (died c. 517)
Amontons 2 km Guillaume Amontons (1663–1705)
Amundsen 101 km Roald Amundsen (1872–1928)
Anaxagoras 50 km Anaxagoras (500–428 BC)
Anaximander 67 km Anaximander (c. 610 – 546 BC)
Anaximenes 80 km Anaximenes (585–528 BC)
Anděl 35 km Karel Anděl (1884–1947)
Anders 40 km William A. Anders (born 1933)
Anderson 109 km John August Anderson (1876–1959)
Andersson 13 km Leif Erland Andersson (1943–1979)
Andronov 16 km Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Andronov (1901–1952)
Ango 1 km (African male name)
Ångström 9 km Anders Jonas Ångström (1814–1874)
Ann 3 km (Hebrew female name)
Annegrit 1 km (German female name)
Ansgarius 94 km Saint Ansgar (801–864)
Antoniadi 143 km Eugene Antoniadi (1870–1944)
Anuchin 57 km Dmitry Nikolayevich Anuchin (1843–1923)
Anville 10 km Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697–1782)
Apianus 63 km Petrus Apianus (1495–1552)
Apollo 537 km Apollo program
Apollonius 53 km Apollonius of Perga (3rd century BC)
Appleton 63 km Edward Victor Appleton (1892–1965)
Arago 26 km François Arago (1786–1853)
Aratus 10 km Aratus of Soli (c. 315 – 245 BC)
Archimedes 82 km Archimedes (c. 287 – 212 BC)
Archytas 31 km Archytas (c. 428 – 347 BC)
Argelander 34 km Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799–1875)
Ariadaeus 11 km Philipus III Arrhidaeus (unknown-317 BC)
Aristarchus 40 km Aristarchus of Samos (c. 310 – 230 BC)
Aristillus 55 km Aristillus (fl. c. 280 BC)
Aristoteles 87 km Aristotle (384–322 BC)
Armiński 26 km Franciszek Armiński (1789–1848)
Armstrong 4 km Neil Armstrong (1930–2012)
Arnold 94 km Christoph Arnold (1650–1695)
Arrhenius 40 km Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927)
Artamonov 60 km Nikolaj N. Artamonov (1906–1965)
Artem'ev 67 km Vladimir A. Artemyev (1885–1962)
Artemis 2 km Greek goddess
Artsimovich 8 km Lev A. Artsimovich (1909–1973)
Aryabhata 22 km Aryabhata (476 – c. 550)
Arzachel 96 km Arzachel (c. 1028 – 1087)
Asada 12 km Goryu Asada (1734–1799)
Asclepi 42 km Giuseppe Asclepi (1706–1776)
Ashbrook 156 km Joseph Ashbrook (1918–1980)
Aston 43 km Francis William Aston (1877–1945)
Atlas 87 km Atlas (mythology)
Atwood 29 km George Atwood (1745–1807)
Autolycus 39 km Autolycus of Pitane (c. 360 BC – c. 290 BC)
Auwers 20 km Arthur Auwers (1838–1915)
Auzout 32 km Adrien Auzout (1622–1691)
Avery 9 km Oswald Theodore Avery (1877–1955)
Avicenna 74 km Avicenna (980–1037)
Avogadro 139 km Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856)
Azophi 47 km Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi (903–986)

B

Crater Diameter Eponym
Baade 55 km Walter Baade (1893–1960)
Babakin 20 km Georgij N. Babakin (1914–1971)
Babbage 143 km Charles Babbage (1792–1871)
Babcock 99 km Harold D. Babcock (1882–1968)
Back 35 km Ernst Emil Alexander Back (1881–1959)
Backlund 75 km Oskar Backlund (1846–1916)
Baco 69 km Roger Bacon (c. 1214 – c. 1294)
Baillaud 89 km Benjamin Baillaud (1848–1934)
Bailly 287 km Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736–1793)
Baily 26 km Francis Baily (1774–1844)
Balandin 12 km Aleksei Aleksandrovich Balandin (1898–1967)
Balboa 69 km Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–1519)
Baldet 55 km Fernand Baldet (1885–1964)
Ball 41 km William Ball (unknown-1690).
Balmer 138 km Johann Balmer (1825–1898)
Banachiewicz 92 km Tadeusz Banachiewicz (1882–1954)
Bancroft 13 km Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1867–1953)
Banting 5 km Frederick Banting (1891–1941)
Barbier 66 km Daniel Barbier (1907–1965)
Barkla 42 km Charles Glover Barkla (1877–1944)
Barnard 105 km Edward Emerson Barnard (1857–1923)
Barocius 82 km Francesco Barocius (fl. 1570)
Barringer 68 km Daniel Barringer (1860–1929)
Barrow 92 km Isaac Barrow (1630–1677)
Bartels 55 km Julius Bartels (1899–1964)
Bawa 1 km (African male name)
Bayer 47 km Johann Bayer (1572–1625)
Beals 48 km Carlyle Smith Beals (1899–1979)
Beaumont 53 km Léonce Élie de Beaumont (1798–1874)
Becquerel 65 km Henri Becquerel (1852–1908)
Bečvář 67 km Antonin Becvar (1901–1965)
Beer 9 km Wilhelm Beer (1797–1850)
Behaim 55 km Martin Behaim (1459–1507)
Beijerinck 70 km Martinus Willem Beijerinck (1851–1931)
Beketov 8 km Nikolay Nikolayevich Beketov (1827–1911)
Béla 11 km (Slavic female name)
Bel'kovich 214 km Igor Vladimirovich Bel'kovich (1904–1949)
Bell 86 km Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)
Bellinsgauzen 63 km Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778–1852)
Bellot 17 km Joseph René Bellot (1826–1853)
Belopol'skiy 59 km Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854–1934)
Belyaev 54 km Pavel Ivanovich Belyaev (1925–1970)
Benedict 14 km Francis Gano Benedict (1870–1957)
Bergman 21 km Torbern Olof Bergman (1735–1784)
Bergstrand 43 km Carl Östen Emanuel Bergstrand (1873–1948)
Berkner 86 km Lloyd Viel Berkner (1905–1967)
Berlage 92 km Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1896–1968)
Bernoulli 47 km Jacques Bernoulli (1654–1705)
Jean Bernoulli (1667–1748)
Berosus 74 km Berosus the Chaldean (died c. 250 BC)
Berzelius 50 km Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848)
Bessarion 10 km Johannes Bessarion (c. 1369 – 1472)
Bessel 15 km Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846)
Bettinus 71 km Mario Bettinus (1582–1657)
Bhabha 64 km Homi Jehangir Bhabha (1909–1966)
Bianchini 38 km Francesco Bianchini (1662–1729)
Biela 76 km Wilhelm von Biela (1782–1856)
Bilharz 43 km Theodore Maximilian Bilharz (1825–1862)
Billy 45 km Jacques de Billy (1602–1679)
Bingham 33 km Hiram Bingham III (1875–1956)
Biot 12 km Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862)
Birkeland 82 km Olaf Kristian Birkeland (1867–1917)
Birkhoff 345 km George D. Birkhoff (1884–1944)
Birmingham 92 km John Birmingham (1816–1884)
Birt 16 km William Radcliffe Birt (1804–1881)
Bi Sheng 55 km Bi Sheng (990–1051)
Bjerknes 48 km Vilhelm Frimann Koren Bjerknes (1862–1951)
Black 18 km Joseph Black (1728–1799)
Blackett 141 km Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1897–1974)
Blagg 5 km Mary Adela Blagg (1858–1944)
Blancanus 117 km Giuseppe Biancani (1566–1624)
Blanchard 40 km Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753–1809)
Blanchinus 61 km Giovanni Bianchini (fl. 1458)
Blazhko 54 km Sergei Nikolaevich Blazhko (1870–1956)
Bliss 20 km Nathaniel Bliss (1700–1764)
Bobillier 6 km Étienne Bobillier (1798–1840)
Bobone 31 km Jorge Bobone (1901–1958)
Bode 18 km Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826)
Boethius 10 km Boethius (c. 480 – 524)
Boguslawsky 97 km Palm Heinrich Ludwig von Boguslawski (1789–1851)
Bohnenberger 33 km Johann Gottlob Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765–1831)
Bohr 71 km Niels H. D. Bohr (1885–1962)
Bok 45 km Priscilla Fairfield Bok (1896–1975)
Bart J. Bok (1906–1983)
Boltzmann 76 km Ludwig E. Boltzmann (1844–1906)
Bolyai 135 km János Bolyai (1802–1860)
Bombelli 10 km Raphael Bombelli (1526–1572)
Bondarenko 30 km Valentin V. Bondarenko (1937–1961)
Bonpland 60 km Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858)
Boole 63 km George Boole (1815–1864)
Borda 44 km Jean Charles Borda (1733–1799)
Borel 4 km Félix Édouard Émile Borel (1871–1956)
Boris 10 km (Russian male name)
Borman 50 km Frank Borman (born 1928)
Born 14 km Max Born (1882–1970)
Borya 0.4 km Russian male name
Bosch 18.6 km Carl Bosch (1874–1940)
Boscovich 46 km Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich (1711–1787)
Bose 91 km Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937)
Boss 47 km Lewis Boss (1846–1912)
Bouguer 22 km Pierre Bouguer (1698–1758)
Boussingault 142 km Jean Baptiste Boussingault (1802–1887)
Bowditch 40 km Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1848)
Bowen 8 km Ira Sprague Bowen (1898–1973)
Boyle 57 km Robert Boyle (1627–1691)
Brackett 8 km Frederick Sumner Brackett (1896–1988)
Bragg 84 km William Henry Bragg (1862–1942)
Brashear 55 km John Alfred Brashear (1840–1920)
Braude 10.5 km Semion Braude (1911–2003)
Brayley 14 km Edward William Brayley (1801–1870)
Bredikhin 59 km Fedor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin (1831–1904)
Breislak 49 km Scipione Breislak (1748–1826)
Brenner 97 km Leo Brenner (1855–1928)
Brewster 10 km David Brewster (1781–1868)
Brianchon 134 km Charles Julien Brianchon (1783–1864)
Bridgman 80 km Percy Williams Bridgman (1882–1961)
Briggs 37 km Henry Briggs (1561–1630)
Brisbane 44 km Sir Thomas Brisbane (1770–1860)
Bronk 64 km Detlev Wulf Bronk (1897–1975)
Brouwer 158 km Dirk Brouwer (1902–1966)
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (1881–1968)
Brown 34 km Ernest William Brown (1866–1938)
Bruce 6 km Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816–1900)
Brunner 53 km William Otto Brunner (1878–1958)
Buch 53 km Christian Leopold von Buch (1774–1853)
Buffon 106 km Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788)
Buisson 56 km Henri Buisson (1873–1944)
Bullialdus 60 km Ismael Bullialdus (1605–1694)
Bunsen 52 km Robert Bunsen (1811–1899)
Burckhardt 56 km Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773–1825)
Bürg 39 km Johann Tobias Bürg (1766–1834)
Burnham 24 km Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838–1921)
Büsching 52 km Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724–1793)
Butlerov 40 km Aleksandr M. Butlerov (1828–1886)
Buys-Ballot 55 km C. H. D. Buys Ballot (1817–1890)
Byrd 93 km Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957)
Byrgius 87 km Joost Bürgi (1552–1632)

References

  1. "Moon craters". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. International Astrophysical Union. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
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