List of craters on the Moon, A-B

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This is a subset of the list of craters on the Moon. 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


Contents


[edit] 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)
Agatharchides 48 km Agatharchides (unknown-circa 150 B.C.)
Agrippa 44 km Agrippa (flourished 92 A.D.)
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)
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 (1930-)
Alekhin 70 km Nikolai Alekhin (1913-1964)
Alexander 81 km Alexander the Great (356-323 BC)
Alfraganus 20 km Alfraganus (unknown-circa 840)
Alhazen 32 km Alhazen (987-1038)
Aliacensis 79 km Pierre d'Ailly (1350-1420)
Al-Khwarizmi 65 km al-Khwarizmi (unknown-circa 825)
Almanon 49 km Abdalla Al Mamun (786-833)
Al-Marrakushi 8 km Al-Marrakushi (flourished circa 1281-2 A.D.)
Aloha 3 km (a Hawaiian greeting)
Alpetragius 39 km Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi (unknown-circa 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 (unknown-circa 517)
Amontons 2 km Guillaume Amontons (1663-1705)
Amundsen 101 km Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)
Anaxagoras 50 km Anaxagoras (500-428 B.C.)
Anaximander 67 km Anaximander (circa 610-546 B.C.)
Anaximenes 80 km Anaximenes (585-528 B.C.)
Anděl 35 km Karel Anděl (1884-1947)
Anders 40 km William A. Anders (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 B.C.)
Appleton 63 km Edward Victor Appleton (1892-1965)
Arago 26 km François Arago (1786-1853)
Aratus 10 km Aratus of Soli (circa 315-245 B.C.)
Archimedes 82 km Archimedes (circa 287-212 B.C.)
Archytas 31 km Archytas (circa 428-347 B.C.)
Argelander 34 km Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799-1875)
Ariadaeus 11 km Philipus III Arrhidaeus (unknown-317 B.C.)
Aristarchus 40 km Aristarchus of Samos (circa 310-230 B.C.)
Aristillus 55 km Aristillus (flourished circa 280 B.C.)
Aristoteles 87 km Aristoteles (384-322 B.C.)
Armiński 26 km Franciszek Armiński (1789-1848)
Armstrong 4 km Neil Armstrong (1930-)
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-circa 550)
Arzachel 96 km Arzachel (circa 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 (circa 360 B.C.-circa 290 B.C.)
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)

[edit] 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 (circa 1214-circa 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 (flourished 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 (unknown-circa 250 B.C.)
Berzelius 50 km Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848)
Bessarion 10 km Johannes Bessarion (circa 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)
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 (flourished 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 Janos 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 (1928-)
Born 14 km Max Born (1882-1970)
Boscovich 46 km Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich (1711-1787)
Bose 91 km Jagadis 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 Sir William Henry Bragg (1862-1942)
Brashear 55 km Dr. John Alfred Brashear (1840-1920)
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)