List of craters on the Moon, R-S

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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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Contents


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Crater Diameter Eponym
Rabbi Levi 81 km Levi Ben Gershon (1288-1344)
Racah 63 km Giulio Racah (1909-1965)
Raimond 70 km Jean Jacques Raimond, Jr. (1903-1961)
Raman 10 km Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970)
Ramon 17 km Ilan Ramon (1954–2003)
Ramsay 81 km William Ramsay (1852-1916)
Ramsden 24 km Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800)
Rankine 8 km William John Macquorn Rankine (1820-1872)
Raspletin 48 km Aleksandr Andreyevich Raspletin (1908-1967)
Ravi 2.5 km (Indian male name)
Rayet 27 km Georges Antoine Pons Rayet (1839-1906)
Rayleigh 114 km John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842-1919)
Razumov 70 km Vladimir Vasil'evich Razumov (1890-1967)
Réaumur 52 km René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757)
Recht 20 km Albert William Recht (1892-1962)
Regiomontanus 108 km Regiomontanus (1436-1476)
Regnault 46 km Henri Victor Regnault (1810-1878)
Reichenbach 71 km Georg von Reichenbach (1772-1826)
Reimarus 48 km Nicolai Reymers Baer (circa 1550-circa 1600)
Reiner 29 km Vincentio Reinieri (unknown-1648)
Reinhold 42 km Erasmus Reinhold (1511-1553)
Repsold 109 km Johann Georg Repsold (1770-1830)
Resnik 20 km Judith Arlene Resnik (1949-1986)
Respighi 18 km Lorenzo Respighi (1824-1890)
Rhaeticus 45 km Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514-1576)
Rheita 70 km Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita (circa 1597-1660)
Riccioli 139 km Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598-1671)
Riccius 71 km Augustine Riccius (flourished 1513)
Matteo Ricci (1552-1610)
Ricco 65 km Annibale Ricco (1844-1911)
Richards 16 km Theodore William Richards (1868-1928)
Richardson 141 km Owen Willans Richardson (1879-1959)
Riedel 47 km Klaus Riedel (1907-1944)
Walter Riedel (1902-1968)
Riemann 163 km Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866)
Ritchey 24 km George Willis Ritchey (1864-1945)
Rittenhouse 26 km David Rittenhouse (1732-1796)
Ritter 29 km Karl Ritter (1779-1859)
August Ritter (flourished 1890)
Ritz 51 km Walter Ritz (1878-1909)
Robert 1 km (English male name)
Roberts 89 km Alexander William Roberts (1857-1938)
Sir Isaac Roberts (1829-1904)
Robertson 88 km Howard Percy Robertson (1903-1961)
Robinson 24 km John Thomas Romney Robinson (1792-1882)
Rocca 89 km Giovanni Antonio Rocca (1607-1656)
Rocco 4 km (Italian male name)
Roche 160 km Édouard Albert Roche (1820-1883)
Romeo 8 km (Italian male name)
Römer 39 km Ole Rømer (1644-1710)
Röntgen 126 km Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923)
Rosa 1 km (Spanish female name)
Rosenberger 95 km Otto August Rosenberger (1800-1890)
Ross 24 km James Clark Ross (1800-1862)
Frank Elmore Ross (1874-1966)
Rosse 11 km William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867)
Rosseland 75 km Svein Rosseland (1894-1985)
Rost 48 km Johann Leonhard Rost (1688-1727)
Rothmann 42 km Christopher Rothmann (unknown-1600)
Rowland 171 km Henry Augustus Rowland III (1848-1901)
Rozhdestvenskiy 177 km Dmitry Syergeyevich Rozhdestvensky (1876-1940)
Rumford 61 km Count Rumford (1753-1814)
Runge 38 km Carle David Tolmé Runge (1856-1927)
Russell 103 km Henry Norris Russell (1877-1957)
John Russell (1745-1806)
Ruth 3 km (Hebrew female name)
Rutherford 13 km Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
Rutherfurd 48 km Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816-1892)
Rydberg 49 km Johannes Robert Rydberg (1854-1919)
Ryder 17 km Graham Ryder (1949-2002)
Rynin 75 km Nikolai Alexsevitch Rynin (1877-1942)

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Crater Diameter Eponym
Sabatier 10 km Paul Sabatier (1854-1941)
Sabine 30 km Edward Sabine (1788-1883)
Sacrobosco 98 km Johannes de Sacrobosco (John Holywood, circa 1200-1256)
Saenger 75 km Eugen Saenger (1905-1964)
Šafařík 27 km Vojtěch Šafařík (1829-1902)
Saha 99 km Megh Nad Saha (1893-1956)
Samir 2 km (Arabic male name)
Sampson 1 km Ralph Allen Sampson (1866-1939)
Sanford 55 km Roscoe Frank Sanford (1883-1958)
Santbech 64 km Daniel Santbech Noviomagus (unknown-flourished 1561)
Santos-Dumont 8 km Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932)
Sarabhai 7 km Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (1919-1971)
Sarton 69 km George Alfred Leon Sarton (1884-1956)
Sasserides 90 km Gellio Sasceride (1562-1612)
Saunder 44 km Samuel Arthur Saunder (1852-1912)
Saussure 54 km Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799)
Scaliger 84 km Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609)
Schaeberle 62 km John Martin Schaeberle (1853-1924)
Scheele 4 km Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786)
Scheiner 110 km Christopher Scheiner (1575-1650)
Schiaparelli 24 km Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (1835-1910)
Schickard 206 km Wilhelm Schickard (1592-1635)
Schiller 180 km Julius Schiller (flourished 1627)
Schjellerup 62 km Hans Carl Frederik Christian Schjellerup (1827-1887)
Schlesinger 97 km Frank Schlesinger (1871-1943)
Schliemann 80 km Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890)
Schlüter 89 km Heinrich Schlüter (1815-1844)
Schmidt 11 km Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825-1884)
Bernhard Schmidt (1879-1935)
Otto Yulyevich Schmidt (1891-1956)
Schneller 54 km Herbert Schneller (1901-1967)
Schomberger 85 km Georg Schomberger (1597-1645)
Schönfeld 25 km Eduard Schönfeld (1828-1891)
Schorr 53 km Richard Schorr (1867-1951)
Schrödinger 312 km Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
Schröter 35 km Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745-1816)
Schubert 54 km Theodor Friedrich von Schubert (1789-1865)
Schumacher 60 km Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780-1850)
Schuster 108 km Arthur Schuster (1851-1934)
Schwabe 25 km Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (1789-1875)
Schwarzschild 212 km Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916)
Scobee 40 km Francis Richard Scobee (1939-1986)
Scoresby 55 km William Scoresby (1789-1857)
Scott 103 km Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)
Seares 110 km Frederick Hanley Seares (1873-1964)
Secchi 22 km Pietro Angelo Secchi (1818-1878)
Sechenov 62 km Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov (1829-1905)
Seeliger 8 km Hugo Hans Ritter von Seeliger (1849-1924)
Segers 17 km Carlos Segers (1900-1967)
Segner 67 km Johann Andreas von Segner (1704-1777)
Seidel 62 km Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821-1896)
Seleucus 43 km Seleucus of Seleucia (flourished circa 150 B.C.)
Seneca 46 km Seneca the Younger (4 B.C.-65 A.D.)
Seyfert 110 km Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911-1960)
Shackleton 19 km Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922).
Shahinaz 15 km (Turkish female name)
Shaler 48 km Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1841-1906)
Shapley 23 km Harlow Shapley (1885-1972)
Sharonov 74 km Vsevolod Vasilievich Sharonov (1901-1964)
Sharp 39 km Abraham Sharp (1651-1742)
Shatalov 21 km Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (1927-)
Shayn 93 km Grigory Abramovich Shajn (1892-1956)
Sheepshanks 25 km Anne Sheepshanks (1789-1876)
Sherrington 18 km Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1856-1952)
Shi Shen 43 km Shi Shen (fl. 4th century BC)
Shirakatsi 51 km Anania Shirakatsi (circa 620-circa 685)
Shoemaker 50.9 km Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928-1997)
Short 70 km James Short (1710-1768)
Shternberg 70 km Pavel Karlovich Shternberg (Sternberg, 1865-1920)
Shuckburgh 38 km George Shuckburgh (1751-1804)
Shuleykin 15 km Mikhail Vasil'evich Shuleykin (1884-1939)
Siedentopf 61 km Heinrich Siedentopf (1906-1963)
Sierpinski 69 km Waclaw Sierpinski (1882-1969)
Sikorsky 98 km Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (1889-1972)
Silberschlag 13 km Johann Esaias Silberschlag (1721-1791)
Simpelius 70 km Hugh Sempill (1596-1654)
Sinas 11 km Simon Sinas (1810-1876)
Sirsalis 42 km Gerolamo Sersale (1584-1654)
Sisakyan 34 km Norajr Martirosovich Sisakyan (1907-1966)
Sita 2 km (Indian female name)
Skłodowska 127 km Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934)
Slipher 69 km Earl Charles Slipher (1883-1964)
Vesto Melvin Slipher (1875-1969)
Slocum 13 km Frederick Slocum (1873-1944)
Smith 34 km Michael John Smith (1945-1986)
Smithson 5 km James Smithson (1765-1829)
Smoluchowski 83 km Marian Smoluchowski (1872-1917)
Snellius 82 km Willebrord Snell (1591-1626)
Sniadecki 43 km Jan Sniadecki (1756-1830)
Soddy 42 km Frederick Soddy (1877-1956)
Somerville 15 km Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872)
Sommerfeld 169 km Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (1868-1951)
Sömmering 28 km Samuel Thomas Sömmering (1755-1830)
Soraya 2 km (Persian female name)
Sosigenes 17 km Sosigenes (flourished 46 B.C.)
South 104 km James South (1785-1867)
Spallanzani 32 km Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799)
Spencer Jones 85 km Sir Harold Spencer Jones (1890-1960)
Spörer 27 km Friederich Wilhelm Gustav Spörer (1822-1895)
Spurr 13 km Josiah Edward Spurr (1870-1950)
St. John 68 km Charles E. St. John (1857-1935)
Stadius 69 km Johannes Stadius (1527-1579)
Stark 49 km Johannes Stark (1874-1957)
Stearns 36 km Carl Leo Stearns (1892-1972)
Stebbins 131 km Joel Stebbins (1878-1966)
Stefan 125 km Josef Stefan (1835-1893)
Stein 33 km Johan Willem Jakob Antoon Stein (1871-1951)
Steinheil 67 km Karl August von Steinheil (1801-1870)
Steklov 36 km Vladimir Andreevich Steklov (1864-1926)
Stella 1 km (Latin female name)
Steno 31 km Nicolaus Steno (1638-1686)
Sternfeld 100 km Ary Abramovich Sternfeld (1905-1980)
Stetson 64 km Harlan True Stetson (1885-1964)
Stevinus 74 km Simon Stevin (1548-1620)
Stewart 13 km John Quincy Stewart (1894-1972)
Stiborius 43 km Andreas Stoberl (1465-1515)
Stöfler 126 km Johannes Stöffler (1452-1531)
Stokes 51 km Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903)
Stoletov 42 km Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov (1839-1896)
Stoney 45 km George Johnstone Stoney (1826-1911)
Störmer 69 km Fredrik Carl Mülertz Störmer (1874-1957)
Strabo 55 km Strabo (54 B.C.-24 A.D.)
Stratton 70 km Frederick John Marrion Stratton (1881-1960)
Street 57 km Thomas Street (1621-1689)
Strömgren 61 km Elis Strömgren (1870-1947)
Struve 164 km Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819-1905)
Otto Struve (1897-1963)
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793-1864)
Subbotin 67 km Mikhail Fedorovich Subbotin (1893-1966)
Suess 8 km Eduard Suess (1831-1914)
Sulpicius Gallus 12 km Gaius Sulpicius Gallus (flourished circa 166 B.C.)
Sumner 50 km Thomas Hubbard Sumner (1807-1876)
Sundman 40 km Karl Fritiof Sundman (1873-1949)
Susan 1 km (English female name)
Sverdrup 35 km Otto Sverdrup (1855-1930)
Swann 42 km William Francis Gray Swann (1884-1962)
Swasey 23 km Ambrose Swasey (1846-1937)
Swift 10 km Lewis Swift (1820-1913)
Sylvester 58 km James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897)
Szilard 122 km Leó Szilárd (1898-1964)