List of craters on the Moon, A–B

Main article: List of craters on the moon

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)
Abetti	1.5 km	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)
Bernoulli	47 km	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)
Bok	45 km	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)
Brouwer	158 km	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

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

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