List of craters of the moon / P

Surname	Named after	location	Mean diameter (km)
Palisa	Johann Palisa	9 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 7 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W.	33
Palitzsch	Johann Georg Palitzsch	28 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 64 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	41
Pallas	Peter Simon Pallas	5 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 1 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W.	46
Palmieri	Luigi Palmieri	28 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 47 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W.	40
Paneth	Friedrich Adolf Paneth	63 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 94 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	65
Pannekoek	Antonie Pannekoek	4 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 140 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	71
Papaleksi	Nikolai D. Papaleksi	10 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 164 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	97
Paracelsus	Paracelsus	23 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E	83
Paraskevopoulos	John S. Paraskevopoulos	50 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 149 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W.	94
Parenago	Pavel P. Parenago	25 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 108 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W.	93
Parkhurst	John A. Parkhurst	33 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 103 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E	96
Parrot	Friedrich Parrot	14 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 3 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E	70
Parry	William Edward Parry	7 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 15 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	47
Parsons	John W. Parsons	37 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 171 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W.	40
Pascal	Blaise Pascal	74 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 70 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W.	115
Paschen	Friedrich Paschen	13 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 139 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	124
Pasteur	Louis Pasteur	11 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 104 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E	224
Patricia	English female name	25 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 0 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E	5
Patsaev	Viktor Ivanovich Pazayev	16 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 133 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E	55
Pauli	Wolfgang Pauli	44 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 137 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	84
Pavlov	Ivan Petrovich Pavlov	28 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 142 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	148
Pawsey	Joseph Pawsey	44 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 145 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	60
Peary	Robert Edwin Peary	88 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 33 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	73
Pease	Francis G. Pease	12 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 106 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W.	38
Peek	Bertrand Meigh Peek	2 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 86 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E	12
Peirce	Benjamin Peirce	18 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 53 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	18th
Peirescius	Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc	46 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 67 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E	61
Pentland	Joseph Barclay Pentland	64 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 11 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	56
Perel'man	Jakow Issidorowitsch Perelman	24 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 106 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	46
Perepelkin	Yevgeny Yakovlevich Perepyolkin	10 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 129 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	97
Perkin	Richard S. Perkin	47 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 175 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W.	62
Perrine	Charles Dillon Perrine	42 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 127 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	86
Petavius	Dionysius Petavius	25 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 60 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E	188
Petermann	August Heinrich Petermann	74 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 66 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E	73
Peters	Christian August Friedrich Peters	68 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 29 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	15th
Petit	Alexis Thérèse Petit	2 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 63 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	5
Petrie	Robert M. Petrie	45 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 108 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E	33
Petropavlovskiy	Boris S. Petropavlovskiy	37 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 114 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	63
Petrov	Evgeny S. Petrov	61 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 88 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	49
Pettit	Edison Pettit	27 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 86 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W.	35
Petzval	Joseph von Petzval	62 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 110 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W.	90
Phillips	John Phillips	26 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 75 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E	122
Philolaus	Philolaus of Croton	72 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 32 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W.	70
Phocylides	Johannes (Jan Fokker) Phocylides Holwarda	52 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 57 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.	121
Piazzi	Giuseppe Piazzi	36 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 67 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W.	134
Piazzi Smyth	Charles Piazzi Smyth	41 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 3 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W.	13
Picard	Jean Picard	14 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 54 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E	22nd
Piccolomini	Alessandro Piccolomini	29 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 32 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E	87
Pickering	Edward Charles Pickering William Henry Pickering	2 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 7 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	15th
Pictet	Marc-Auguste Pictet-Turretin	43 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 7 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W.	62
Pikel'ner	Solomon Borisovich Pikel'ner	47 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 123 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E	47
Pilâtre	Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier	60 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 86 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W.	50
Pingré	Alexandre Guy Pingré	58 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 73 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W.	88
Pirquet	Guido from Pirquet	20 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 139 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E	65
Pitatus	Pietro Pitati	29 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 13 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W.	106
Pitiscus	Bartholomäus Pitiscus	50 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 30 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E	82
Pizzetti	Paolo Pizzetti	34 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 118 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E	44
Plana	Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana	42 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 28 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E	44
Planck	Max Karl Ernst Planck	57 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 136 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E	314
Planté	Gaston Planté	10 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E	37
Plaskett	John Stanley Plaskett	82 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 174 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E	109
plato	plato	51 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W.	109
Playfair	John Playfair	23 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 8 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E	47
Pliny	Gaius Pliny Secundus the Elder	15 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 23 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E	43
Plummer	Henry C. Plummer	25 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 155 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.	73
Plutarch	Plutarch	24 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 79 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	68
Poczo Butter	Martin Poczobutt-Odlanicki	57 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 98 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	195
Pogson	Norman Robert Pogson	42 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 110 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	50
Poincaré	Jules Henri Poincare	56 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E	319
Poinsot	Louis Poinsot	79 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 145 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W.	68
Poisson	Siméon Denis Poisson	30 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 10 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E	42
Polybius	Polybius	22 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 25 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E	41
Polzunov	Ivan I. Polzunov	25 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 114 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E	67
Pomortsev	Mikhail Mikhailovich Pomortsev	0 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 66 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E	23
Poncelet	Jean-Victor Poncelet	75 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 54 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W.	69
Pons	Jean-Louis Pons	25 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 21 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	41
Pontanus	Giovanni Pontano	28 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 14 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E	57
Pontécoulant	Philippe Gustave Doulcet Comte de Pontecoulant	58 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 66 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E	91
Popov	Aleksandr S. Popov C. Popov	17 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 99 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E	65
porter	Russell W. Porter	56 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 10 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W.	51
Posidonius	Posidonius of Apamea	31 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 29 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E	95
Poynting	John Henry Poynting	18 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 133 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W.	128
Prague	Richard Prager	3 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 130 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E	60
Prandtl	Ludwig Prandtl	60 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  S , 141 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E	91
Priestley	Joseph Priestley	57 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 108 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E	52
prince	Wilhelm Prince	25 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 44 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W.	46
Priscilla	Latin woman name	10 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 6 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W.	1.8
Proclus	Diadochus Proclus	16 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 46 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E	28
Proctor	Mary Proctor	46 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  S , 5 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W.	52
Protagoras	Protagoras	56 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E	21st
Ptolemy	Claudius Ptolemy	9 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  S , 1 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W.	164
Puiseux	Pierre Puiseux	27 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 39 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.	24
Pupin	Michael Idvorsky Pupin	23 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.	2
Purbach	Georg von Purbach	25 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 2 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W.	115
Purkyne	Jan Evangelista Purkyně	1 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 94 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E	48
Pythagoras	Pythagoras of Samos	63 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 63 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W.	142
Pytheas	Pytheas of Marseilles	20 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 20 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W.	20th