List of craters of the moon / A

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Surname Named after location Diameter (km)
Abb Ernst Abbe 57 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 175 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E 66
Abbot Charles Greeley Abbot 5 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 54 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 10
Abel Niels Henrik Abel 34 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 87 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E 122
Abenezra Abraham Bar Rabbi Ben Ezra 21 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 11 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E 42
Abetti Antonio Abetti
Giorgio Abetti 		20 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 27 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 1.5
Abul Wáfa Abū al-Wafā 'al-Būzjānī 1 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 116 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E 55
Abulfeda Ismail Abu'L-fida 13 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 13 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E 65
Acosta Cristóbal Acosta 5 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 60 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E 13
Adams John Couch Adams
Charles Hitchcock Adams
Walter S. Adams 		31 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 68 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E 66
Aepinus Franz Ulrich Theodor Aepinus 88 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  N , 108 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W. 17.5
Agatharchides Agatharchides 19 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 30 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W. 48
Agrippa Roman cognomen, male first name and modern family name 4 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E 44
Airy George Biddell Airy 18 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 5 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E 36
Aitken Robert Grant Aitken 16 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 173 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E 135
Akis Greek woman name 20 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 31 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W. 2
Alan Irish male name 10 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 6 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W. 2
Al-Bakri Abu Abdullah Al-Bakri 14 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 20 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E 12
Albategnius Muhammed Ben Geber C. Al-Batani 11 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 4 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E 114
Al-Biruni Al-Biruni 17 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 92 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E 77
Alden Harold Lee Alden 23 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 110 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 104
Alder Kurt Alder 48 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 177 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W. 77
Aldrin "Buzz" Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. 1 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 22 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E 3
Alekhin Nikolaj P. Alekhin 68 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 131 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W. 70
Alexander Alexander the Great of Macedonia 40 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E 81
Alfraganus Muhammed Ebn Ketir Al Fargani 5 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 19 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E 20th
Alhazen Abu Ali Al-Hasan Ibn Al Haitham Alhazen 15 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 71 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 32
Aliacensis Pierre d'Ailly 30 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 5 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E 79
Al-Khwarizmi al-Khwarizmi 7 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 106 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E 65
Almanon Abdalla Al Mamun 16 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 15 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E 49
Al-Marrakushi al-Marrakushi 10 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 55 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 8th
Aloha Hawaiian greeting (see Aloha ) 29 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 53 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W. 3
Alpetragius Ed-Din Al Fraudi only 16 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 4 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W. 39
Alphonsus Alfonso X (Castile) 13 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 3 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W. 108
Age Dinsmore dude 18 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 107 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W. 64
Ameghino Fiorino Ameghino 3 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 57 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E 9
Amici Giovanni Battista Amici 9 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W. 54
Ammonius Ammonios Hermeiou 8 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 0 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W. 8th
Amontons Guillaume Amontons 5 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 46 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 2
Amundsen Roald Amundsen 84 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 85 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E 101
Anaxagoras Anaxagoras 73 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W. 50
Anaximander Anaximander 66 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 51 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W. 67
Anaximenes Anaximenes 72 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 44 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W. 80
Anděl Karel Andel 10 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 12 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E 35
Different William A. Anders 41 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 142 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W. 40
Anderson John A. Anderson 15 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 171 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E 109
Andersson Leif Erland Andersson 49 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 95 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W. 13
Andronov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Andronov 22 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 146 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E 16
Ango African male name 20 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 32 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W. 1
Angstrom Jonas Ångström is different 29 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 41 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W. 9
Ann Hebrew woman's name 25 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 0 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W. 3
Annegrit German women's name 29 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 25 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W. 1
Ansgarius St. Ansgar 12 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 79 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E 94
Antoniadi Eugène Michel Antoniadi 69 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W. 143
Anuchin Dmitri Nikolayevich Anuchin 49 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 101 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E 57
Anville Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville 1 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 49 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E 10
Apianus Petrus Apianus 26 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 7 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E 63
Apollo Apollo missions 36 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 151 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W. 537
Apollonius Apollonius of Perga 4 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 61 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E 53
Appleton Sir Edward V. Appleton 37 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 158 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E 63
Arago François Arago 6 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 21 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E 26th
Aratus Aratus 23 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 4 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E 10
Archimedes Archimedes 29 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 4 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W. 81
Archytas Archytas of Taranto 58 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 5 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E 31
Argelander Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander 16 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 5 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 34
Ariadaeus Philip III Arrhidaios 4 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E 11
Aristarchus Aristarchus of Samos 23 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 47 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W. 40
Aristillus Aristillus 33 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 1 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E 55
Aristotle Aristotle 50 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E 87
Arminski Franciszek Armiński 16 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E 26th
Armstrong Neil Armstrong 1 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 25 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E 4th
Arnold Christoph Arnold 66 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 35 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E 94
Arrhenius Svante Arrhenius 55 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 91 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W. 40
Artamonov Nikolay N. Artamonov 25 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 103 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E 60
Artem'ev Vladimir Andreevich Artemyev 10 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 144 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W. 67
Artemis Artemis 25 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 25 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W. 2
Artsimovich Lev Andreevich Arzimowitsch 27 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 36 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W. 8th
Aryabhata Aryabhata 6 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 35 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E 22nd
Arzachel Al-Zarqali 18 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 1 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W. 96
Asada Asada Gōryū 7 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 49 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E 12
Asclepi Giuseppe Asclepi 55 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 25 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E 42
Ashbrook Joseph Ashbrook 81 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 112 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W. 156
Aston Francis William Aston 32 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 87 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W. 43
Atlas Atlas 46 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 44 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E 87
Atwood George Atwood 5 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 57 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E 29
Autolycus Autolycus of Pitane 30 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 1 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E 39
Auwers Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur Auwers 15 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E 20th
Auzout Adrien Auzout 10 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 64 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E 32
Avery Oswald Theodore Avery 1 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 81 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E 9
Avicenna Abu Ali Ibn Sina 39 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 97 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W. 74
Avogadro Amedeo (Conte Di Quarengna) Avogadro 63 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 164 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E 139
Azophi Abderrahman Al-Sufi 22 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 12 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E 47