List of craters on the Moon, O-Q

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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.

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Crater Diameter Eponym
Oberth 60 km Hermann Oberth (1894-1989)
Obruchev 71 km Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev (1863-1956)
O'Day 71 km Marcus O'Day (1897-1961)
Oenopides 67 km Oenopides of Chios (circa 500-430 B.C.)
Oersted 42 km Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851)
Ohm 64 km Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854)
Oken 71 km Lorenz Ockenfuss (1779-1851)
Olbers 74 km Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers (1758-1840)
Olcott 81 km William Tyler Olcott (1873-1936)
Olivier 69 km Charles Pollard Olivier (1884-1975)
Omar Khayyam 70 km Omar Khayyám (circa 1050-1123)
Onizuka 29 km Ellison Shoji Onizuka (1946-1986)
Opelt 48 km Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt (1794-1863)
Oppenheimer 208 km J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
Oppolzer 40 km Theodor von Oppolzer (1841-1886)
Oresme 76 km Nicolaus von Oresme (circa 1323-1382)
Orlov 81 km Aleksandr Iakovlevich Orlov (1880-1954)
Sergei Vladimirovich Orlov (1880-1958)
Orontius 105 km Oronce Finé (1494-1555)
Osama 0.5 km (Arabic male name)
Osiris 1 km Osiris (Egyptian deity)
Osman 2 km (Turkish male name)
Ostwald 104 km Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932)

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Crater Diameter Eponym
Palisa 33 km Johann Palisa (1848-1925)
Palitzsch 41 km Johann Georg Palitzsch (1723-1788)
Pallas 46 km Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811)
Palmieri 40 km Luigi Palmieri (1807-1896)
Paneth 65 km Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887-1958)
Pannekoek 71 km Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960)
Papaleksi 97 km Nikolaj Dmitrievich Papaleksi (1880-1947)
Paracelsus 83 km Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541)
Paraskevopoulos 94 km John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos (1889-1951)
Parenago 93 km Pavel Petrovich Parenago (1906-1960)
Parkhurst 96 km John Adelbert Parkhurst (1861-1925)
Parrot 70 km Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot (1792-1840)
Parry 47 km William Edward Parry (1790-1855)
Parsons 40 km John Whiteside Parsons (1913-1952)
Pascal 115 km Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Paschen 124 km Friedrich Paschen (1865-1940)
Pasteur 224 km Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
Patricia 5 km (English female name)
Patsaev 55 km Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (1933-1971)
Pauli 84 km Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958)
Pavlov 148 km Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936)
Pawsey 60 km Joseph Lade Pawsey (1908-1962)
Peary 73 km Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920)
Pease 38 km Francis Gladheim Pease (1881-1938)
Peek 12 km Bertrand Meigh Peek (1891-1965)
Peirce 18 km Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880)
Peirescius 61 km Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637)
Pentland 56 km Joseph Barclay Pentland (1797-1873)
Perel'man 46 km Yakov I. Perelman (1882-1942)
Perepelkin 97 km Evgenij J. Perepelkin (1906-1940)
Perkin 62 km Richard Scott Perkin (1906-1969)
Perrine 86 km Charles Dillon Perrine (1867-1951)
Petavius 188 km Denis Petau (1583-1652)
Petermann 73 km August Heinrich Petermann (1822-1878)
Peters 15 km Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806-1880)
Petit 5 km Alexis Therese Petit (1771-1820)
Petrie 33 km Robert Methven Petrie (1906-1966)
Petropavlovskiy 63 km Boris Sergeevich Petropavlovskiy (1898-1933)
Petrov 49 km Evgenij S. Petrov (1900-1942)
Pettit 35 km Edison Pettit (1889-1962)
Petzval 90 km Joseph von Petzval (1807-1891)
Phillips 122 km John Phillips (1800-1874)
Philolaus 70 km Philolaus of Croton (flourished 400 B.C.)
Phocylides 121 km Johannes Phocylides Holwarda (Jan Fokker) (1618-1651)
Piazzi 134 km Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1826)
Piazzi Smyth 13 km Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900)
Picard 22 km Jean-Felix Picard (1620-1682)
Piccolomini 87 km Alessandro Piccolomini (1508-1578)
Pickering 15 km Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919)
William Henry Pickering (1858-1938)
Pictet 62 km Marc-Auguste Pictet-Turretin (1752-1825)
Pikel'ner 47 km Solomon Borisovich Pikelner (1921-1975)
Pilâtre 50 km Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1756-1785)
Pingré 88 km Alexandre Guy Pingré (1711-1796)
Pirquet 65 km Baron Guido von Pirquet (1867-1936)
Pitatus 106 km Pietro Pitati (flourished circa 1500)
Pitiscus 82 km Bartholemaeus Pitiscus (1561-1613)
Pizzetti 44 km Paolo Pizzetti (1860-1918)
Plana 44 km Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana (1781-1864)
Planck 314 km Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858-1947)
Planté 37 km Gaston Planté (1834-1889)
Plaskett 109 km John Stanley Plaskett (1865-1941)
Plato 109 km Plato (circa 428-circa 347 B.C.)
Playfair 47 km John Playfair (1748-1819)
Plinius 43 km Pliny the Elder (23-79)
Plummer 73 km Henry Crozier Keating Plummer (1875-1946)
Plutarch 68 km Plutarch (circa 46-circa 120)
Poczobutt 195 km Martin Odlanicky Poczobutt (1728-1810)
Pogson 50 km Norman Robert Pogson (1829-1891)
Poincaré 319 km Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
Poinsot 68 km Louis Poinsot (1777-1859)
Poisson 42 km Siméon-Denis Poisson (1781-1840)
Polybius 41 km Polybius (circa 204-circa 122 B.C.)
Polzunov 67 km Ivan Ivanovich Polzunov (1728-1766)
Pomortsev 23 km Mikhail Mikhailovich Pomortsev (1851-1916)
Poncelet 69 km Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788-1867)
Pons 41 km Jean-Louis Pons (1761-1831)
Pontanus 57 km Giovanni Gioviani Pontano (1427-1503)
Pontécoulant 91 km Philippe Gustave Doulcet, Comte De Pontécoulant (1795-1874)
Popov 65 km Aleksander Stepanovich Popov (1859-1905)
C. Popov (1880-1966)
Porter 51 km Russell Williams Porter (1871-1949)
Posidonius 95 km Posidonius (circa 135-circa 51 B.C.)
Poynting 128 km John Henry Poynting (1852-1914)
Prager 60 km Richard A. Prager (1884-1945)
Prandtl 91 km Ludwig Prandtl (1875-1953)
Priestley 52 km Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)
Prinz 46 km Wilhelm Prinz (1857-1910)
Priscilla 1.8 km (Latin female name)
Proclus 28 km Proclus Diadochus (410-485)
Proctor 52 km Mary Proctor (1862-1957)
Protagoras 21 km Protagoras (circa 481-circa 411 B.C.)
Ptolemaeus 164 km Ptolemy (circa 87-150)
Puiseux 24 km Pierre Puiseux (1855-1928)
Pupin 2 km Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin (1858-1935)
Purbach 115 km Georg Purbach (1423-1461)
Purkyně 48 km Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787-1869)
Pythagoras 142 km Pythagoras (flourished circa 532 B.C.)
Pytheas 20 km Pytheas (born circa 308 B.C.)

[edit] Q

Crater Diameter Eponym
Quetelet 55 km Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quételet (1796-1874)