List of craters on the Moon, O–Q

The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature maintained by the International Astronomical Union includes the diameter of the crater and the person the crater is named for.[1] Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages.

Lists of craters on the Moon
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

O

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 (c. 500-430 BC)
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 (c. 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 Nicole Oresme (c. 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)

P

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 (1914–1952)
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 G. 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 BC)
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)
Pierazzo 9 km Elisabetta Pierazzo (1963-2011)
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 (1880–1966)
Pitatus 106 km Pietro Pitati (flourished c. 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 (c. 428-c. 347 BC)
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 (c. 46-c. 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 (c. 204-c. 122 BC)
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 (c. 135-c. 51 BC)
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 (c. 481-c. 411 BC)
Ptolemaeus 164 km Ptolemy (c. 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 c. 532 BC)
Pytheas 20 km Pytheas (born c. 308 BC)

Q

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

References

  1. ↑ "Moon craters". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. International Astrophysical Union. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
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