List of craters of the moon / C

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Surname Named after location Mean
diameter (km)
C. Herschel Caroline Herschel 34 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 31 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W. 13
C. Mayer Christian Mayer 63 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E 38
Cabannes Jean Cabannes 60 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 169 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W. 80
Cabeus Niccolò Cabeo 84 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 35 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W. 98
Cai Lun Cai Lun 80 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  N , 113 ° 49 ′ 12 ″  E 43
Cailleux André Cailleux 60 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 153 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E 50
Cajal Santiago Ramon y Cajal 12 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 31 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E 9
Cajori Florian Cajori 47 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 168 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 70
Calippus Calippus of Cyzicus 38 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E 32
Cameron Robert Curry Cameron 6 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 45 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E 10
Campanus Giovanni Campano 28 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 27 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W. 48
Campbell Leon Campbell
William Wallace Campbell 		45 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 151 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E 219
Cannizzaro Stanislao Cannizzaro 55 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 99 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W. 56
Cannon Annie Jump Cannon 19 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 81 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E 56
Cantor Georg Cantor
Moritz Cantor 		38 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 118 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E 81
Capella Martianus Capella 7 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 35 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E 49
Capuanus Francesco Capuano di Manfredonia 34 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 26 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W. 59
Cardanus Gerolamo Cardano 13 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 72 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W. 49
Carlini Francesco Carlini 33 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 24 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W. 10
Carlos Spanish men's first name 24 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 2 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E 4th
Carmichael Leonard Carmichael 19 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 40 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E 20th
Carnot Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot 52 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 143 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W. 126
Carol female and male first name 8 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 122 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E 8th
Carpenter James Carpenter
Edwin F. Carpenter 		69 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 50 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W. 59
Carrel Alexis Carrel 10 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 26 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E 15th
Carrillo Nabor Carrillo Flores 2 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 80 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E 16
Carrington Richard Christopher Carrington 44 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 62 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E 30th
Cartan Élie Joseph Cartan 4 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 59 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E 15th
Carver George Washington Carver 43 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 126 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E 59
Casatus Paolo Casati 72 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 29 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W. 108
Cassegrain Laurent Cassegrain 52 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 113 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E 55
Cassini Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Jacques Cassini 		40 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 4 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E 56
Catalan Miguel Ángel Catalán 45 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 87 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W. 25th
Catharina Saint Catherine of Alexandria 18 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 23 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E 104
Cauchy Augustin Louis Cauchy 9 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 38 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E 12
Cavalerius Bonaventure Cavalieri 5 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 66 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W. 57
Cavendish Henry Cavendish 24 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 53 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W. 56
Caventou Joseph Bienaimé Caventou 29 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 29 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W. 3
Cayley Arthur Cayley 4 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 15 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E 14th
Celsius Different Celsius 34 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 20 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E 36
Censorinus Censorinus 0 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 32 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E 3
Cepheus Cepheus 40 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 45 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 39
Chacornac Jean Chacornac 29 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 31 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E 51
Chadwick James Chadwick 52 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 101 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W. 30th
Chaffee Roger B. Chaffee 38 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 153 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W. 49
Challis James Challis 79 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E 55
Chalonge Daniel Chalonge 21 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 117 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W. 30th
Chamberlin Thomas C. Chamberlin 58 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 95 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E 58
Champollion Jean-François Champollion 37 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 175 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E 58
Chandler Seth Carlo Chandler 43 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 171 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E 85
Chang Heng Chang Heng 19 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 112 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E 43
Chang-ngo Chinese woman name 12 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 2 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W. 3
Chant Clarence A. Chant 40 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 109 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W. 33
Chaplygin Sergei Alexejewitsch Chaplygin 6 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 150 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E 137
Chapman Sydney Chapman 50 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 100 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W. 71
Chappe Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche 61 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 91 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W. 59
Chappell James F. Chappell 54 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 177 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W. 80
Charles French man's name 29 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 26 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W. 1
Charlier Carl Charlier 36 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 131 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W. 99
Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer 3 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 140 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W. 45
Chauvenet William Chauvenet 11 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 137 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E 81
Chebyshev Pafnuti Lvovich Chebyshev 33 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 133 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W. 178
Chernyshev Nikolai G. Chernyshev 47 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 174 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E 58
Chevallier Temple Chevallier 44 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 51 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E 52
Ching-Te chinese man name 20 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 30 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E 4th
Chladni Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni 4 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 1 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E 13
Chrétien Henri Chrétien 45 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E 88
Christel German women's name 24 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E 2
Cichus Cecco d'Ascoli 33 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 21 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W. 40
Clairaut Alexis-Claude Clairaut 47 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 13 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E 75
Clark Alvan Clark
Alvan Graham Clark 		38 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 118 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E 49
Clausius Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Clausius 36 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 43 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W. 24
Clavius Christophorus Clavius 58 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 14 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W. 245
Cleomedes Cleomedes 27 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 56 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E 125
Cleostratus Cleostratos of Tenedos 60 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 77 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W. 62
Clerke Agnes Mary Clerke 21 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 29 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 6th
Coblentz William Coblentz 37 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 126 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E 33
Cockcroft Sir John D. Cockcroft 31 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 162 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W. 93
Collins Michael Collins 1 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 23 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E 2
Colombo Christoph Columbus 15 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 45 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 76
Compton Arthur Holly Compton
Karl Taylor Compton 		55 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 103 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 162
Comrie Leslie John Comrie 23 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 112 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W. 59
Comstock George C. Comstock 21 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 121 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W. 72
Condon Edward U. Condon 1 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 60 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E 34
Condorcet Jean de Condorcet 12 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 69 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E 74
Congreve Sir William Congreve 0 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 167 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W. 57
Conon Konon of Samos 21 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 2 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E 21st
cook James Cook 17 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 48 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E 46
cooper John C. Cooper 52 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 175 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E 36
Copernicus Nicholas Copernicus 9 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 20 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W. 93
Cori Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori 50 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 151 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W. 65
Coriolis Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis 0 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 171 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 78
Couder André Couder 4 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 92 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W. 21st
Coulomb Charles Augustin de Coulomb 54 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 114 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W. 89
Courtney English female and male name 25 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 30 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W. 1
Cremona Luigi Cremona 67 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 90 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W. 85
Crile G. Crile 14 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 46 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E 9
Crocco Gaetano Arturo Crocco 47 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 150 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E 75
Crommelin Andrew Crommelin 68 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 146 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W. 94
Crookes Sir William Crookes 10 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 164 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W. 49
Crozier Francis Crozier 13 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 50 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 22nd
Cruger Peter Crüger 16 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 66 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W. 45
Ctesibius Ktesibios 0 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 118 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E 36
curie Pierre Curie 22 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 91 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E 151
Curtis Heber Doust Curtis 14 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 56 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E 2
Curtius Albert Curtz 67 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 4 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E 95
Cusanus Nikolaus von Kues 72 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 70 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E 63
Cuvier Georges Cuvier 50 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 9 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E 75
Cyrano Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac 20 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 157 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E 80
Cyrillus Cyril of Alexandria 13 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 24 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E 98
Cysatus Johann Baptist Cysat 66 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 6 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W. 48