List of craters on the Moon, G–K

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

G

Crater Diameter Eponym
G. Bond 20 km George Phillips Bond (1826–1865)
Gadomski 65 km Jan Gadomski (1889–1966)
Gagarin 265 km Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968)
Galen 10 km Claudius Galen (circa 129-200)
Galilaei 15 km Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
Galle 21 km Johann Gottfried Galle (1812–1910)
Galois 222 km Évariste Galois (1811–1832)
Galvani 80 km Luigi Galvani (1737–1798)
Gambart 25 km Jean Félix Adolphe Gambart (1800–1836)
Gamow 129 km George Gamow (1904–1968)
Ganskiy 43 km Aleksey P. (Hansky) Ganskiy (1870–1908)
Ganswindt 74 km Hermann Ganswindt (1856–1934)
Garavito 74 km Julio Garavito Armero (1865–1920)
Gardner 18 km Irvine Clifton Gardner (1889–1972)
Gärtner 115 km Christian Gärtner (circa 1750-1813)
Gassendi 101 km Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655)
Gaston 2 km (French male name)
Gaudibert 34 km Casimir Marie Gaudibert (1823–1901)
Gauricus 79 km Luca Gaurico (1476–1558)
Gauss 177 km Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855)
Gavrilov 60 km Aleksandr I. Gavrilov (1884–1955)
Igor B. Gavrilov (1928–1982)
Gay-Lussac 26 km Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850)
Geber 44 km Jabir ibn Aflah (1100–1150)
Geiger 34 km Johannes Hans Wilhelm Geiger (1882–1945)
Geissler 16 km Heinrich Geissler (1814–1879)
Geminus 85 km Geminus (unknown-circa 70 BC)
Gemma Frisius 87 km Gemma Frisius (1508–1555)
Gena 0.2 km Russian male name
Gerard 90 km Alexander Gerard (1792–1839)
Gerasimovich 86 km Boris P. Gerasimovich (1889–1937)
Gernsback 48 km Hugo Gernsback (1884–1967)
Gibbs 76 km Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903)
Gilbert 112 km Grove Karl Gilbert (1843–1918)
William Gilbert (1544–1603)
Gill 66 km David Gill (astronomer) (1843–1914)
Ginzel 55 km Friedrich Karl Ginzel (1850–1926)
Gioja 41 km Flavio Gioja (flourished 1302)
Giordano Bruno 22 km Giordano Bruno (1548–1600)
Glaisher 15 km James Glaisher (1809–1903)
Glauber 15 km Johann Rudolf Glauber (circa 1603-1670)
Glazenap 43 km Sergej Pavlovich von Glazenap (1848–1937)
Glushko 43 km Valentin Petrovitch Glushko (1908–1989)
Goclenius 72 km Rudolf Goclenius, Jr. (1572–1621)
Goddard 89 km Robert H. Goddard (1882–1945)
Godin 34 km Louis Godin (1704–1760)
Goldschmidt 113 km Hermann Goldschmidt (1802–1866)
Golgi 5 km Camillo Golgi (1843–1926)
Golitsyn 36 km Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862–1916)
Golovin 37 km Nicholas Erasmus Golovin (1912–1969)
Goodacre 46 km Walter Goodacre (1856–1938)
Gore 8.5 km John Ellard Gore (1845–1910)
Gould 34 km Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824–1896)
Grace 1 km (English female name)
Grachev 35 km Andrej D. Grachev (1900–1964)
Graff 36 km Kasimir Romuald Graff (1878–1950)
Grave 40 km Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave (1863–1939)
Ivan Platonovich Grave (1874–1960)
Greaves 13 km William Michael Herbert Greaves (1897–1955)
Green 65 km George Green (1793–1841)
Gregory 67 km James Gregory (1638–1675)
Grigg 36 km John Grigg (1838–1920)
Grimaldi 172 km Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618–1663)
Grignard 12.2 km Victor Grignard (1871–1935)
Grissom 58 km Virgil "Gus" I. Grissom (1926–1967)
Grotrian 37 km Walter Grotrian (1890–1954)
Grove 28 km Sir William Robert Grove (1811–1896)
Gruemberger 93 km Christoph Grienberger (1561–1636)
Gruithuisen 15 km Franz von Gruithuisen (1774–1852)
Guericke 63 km Otto von Guericke (1602–1686)
Guillaume 57 km Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861–1938)
Gullstrand 43 km Allvar Gullstrand (1862–1930)
Gum 54 km Colin Stanley Gum (1924–1960)
Gutenberg 74 km Johann Gutenberg (circa 1398-1468)
Guthnick 36 km Paul Guthnick (1879–1947)
Guyot 92 km Arnold Henry Guyot (1807–1884)
Gyldén 47 km Hugo Gyldén (1841–1896)

H

Crater Diameter Eponym
H. G. Wells 114 km H. G. Wells, writer (1866–1946)
Haber 55.5 km Fritz Haber (1868–1934)
Hagecius 76 km Tadeáš Hájek (1525–1600)
Hagen 55 km Johann Georg Hagen (1847–1930)
Hahn 84 km Friedrich von Hahn (1741–1805)
Otto Hahn (1879–1968)
Haidinger 22 km Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger (1795–1871)
Hainzel 70 km Paul Hainzel (flourished 1570)
Haldane 37 km John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892–1964)
Hale 83 km George Ellery Hale (1868–1938)
William Hale (1797–1870)
Hall 35 km Asaph Hall (1829–1907)
Halley 36 km Edmond Halley (1656–1742)
Hamilton 57 km William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865)
Hanno 56 km Hanno the Navigator (circa 500 BC)
Hansen 39 km Peter Andreas Hansen (1795–1874)
Hansteen 44 km Christopher Hansteen (1784–1873)
Harden 15 km Arthur Harden (1865–1940)
Harding 22 km Karl Ludwig Harding (1765–1834)
Haret 29 km Spiru Haret (1851–1912)
Hargreaves 16 km Frederick James Hargreaves (1891–1970)
Harkhebi 237 km Harkhebi (circa 300 BC)
Harlan 65 km Harlan James Smith (1924–1991)
Harold 2 km (Scandinavian male name)
Harpalus 39 km Harpalus (unknown-circa 460 BC)
Harriot 56 km Thomas Harriot (1560–1621)
Hartmann 61 km Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865–1936)
Hartwig 79 km Carl Ernst Albrecht Hartwig (1851–1923)
Harvey 60 km William Harvey (1578–1657)
Hase 83 km Johann Matthias Hase (1684–1742)
Haskin 58.4 km Larry Haskin (1934–2005)
Hatanaka 26 km Takeo Hatanaka (1914–1963)
Hausen 167 km Christian August Hausen (1693–1743)
Haworth 35 km Walter Norman Haworth (1883–1950)
Hayford 27 km John Fillmore Hayford (1868–1925)
Hayn 87 km Friedrich Hayn (1863–1928)
Healy 38 km Roy Healy (1915–1968)
Heaviside 165 km Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925)
Hecataeus 167 km Hecataeus of Miletus (unknown-circa 476 BC)
Hédervári 69 km Peter Hédervári (1931–1984)
Hedin 150 km Sven Hedin (1865–1952)
Heinrich 6 km Wladimir Wáclav Heinrich (1884–1965)
Heinsius 64 km Gottfried Heinsius (1709–1769)
Heis 14 km Eduard Heis (1806–1877)
Helberg 6 km Robert J. Helberg (1906–1967)
Helicon 24 km Helicon (unknown-circa 400 BC)
Hell 33 km Maximilian Hell (1720–1792)
Helmert 26 km Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843–1917)
Helmholtz 94 km Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894)
Henderson 47 km Thomas Henderson (1798–1844)
Hendrix 6 km Don Osgood Hendrix (1905–1961)
Henry 41 km Joseph Henry (1792–1878)
Henry Frères 42 km Paul Henry and Prosper Henry (1848–1905, 1849–1903)
Henyey 63 km Louis G. Henyey (1910–1970)
Heraclitus 90 km Heraclitus (circa 540-480 BC)
Hercules 69 km Hercules
Herigonius 15 km Pierre Herigone (flourished 1644)
Hermann 15 km Jacob Hermann (1678–1733)
Hermite 104 km Charles Hermite (1822–1901)
Herodotus 34 km Herodotus (circa 484-408 BC)
Heron 24 km Heron (Hero) (unknown-circa 100 BC)
Herschel 40 km William Herschel (1738–1822)
Hertz 90 km Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894)
Hertzsprung 591 km Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873–1967)
Hesiodus 42 km Hesiod (circa 735 BC)
Hess 88 km Victor Franz Hess (1883–1964)
Harry Hammond Hess (1906–1969)
Hevelius 115 km Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687)
Hevesy 49.5 km George de Hevesy (1885–1966)
Heymans 50 km Corneille Jean François Heymans (1892–1968)
Heyrovsky 15 km Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890–1967)
Hilbert 151 km David Hilbert (1862–1943)
Hildegard 122 km Hildegard von Bingen (1098- 1179)
Hill 16 km George William Hill (1838–1914)
Hind 29 km John Russell Hind (1823–1895)
Hinshelwood 14.2 km Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897–1967)
Hippalus 57 km Hippalus (unknown-circa 120)
Hipparchus 138 km Hipparchus (flourished 140 BC)
Hippocrates 60 km Hippocrates (circa 460-377 BC)
Hirayama 132 km Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874–1943)
Shin Hirayama (1867–1945)
Hoffmeister 45 km Cuno Hoffmeister (1892–1968)
Hogg 38 km Arthur Robert Hogg (1903–1966)
Frank Scott Hogg (1904–1951)
Hohmann 16 km Walter Hohmann (1880–1945)
Holden 47 km Edward Singleton Holden (1846–1914)
Holetschek 38 km Johann Holetschek (1846–1923)
Hommel 126 km Johann Hommel (1518–1562)
Hooke 36 km Robert Hooke (1635–1703)
Hopmann 88 km Josef Hopmann (1890–1975)
Hornsby 3 km Thomas Hornsby (1733–1810)
Horrebow 24 km Peder Horrebow (1679–1764)
Horrocks 30 km Jeremiah Horrocks (1619–1641)
Hortensius 14 km Martin van den Hove (1605–1639)
Houssay 24.5 km Bernardo Houssay (1887–1971)
Houtermans 29 km Friedrich Georg Houtermans (1903–1966)
Houzeau 71 km Jean Charles Houzeau (de Lehaie) (1820–1888)
Hubble 80 km Edwin Powell Hubble (1889–1953)
Huggins 65 km Sir William Huggins (1824–1910)
Humason 4 km Milton Lasell Humason (1891–1972)
Humboldt 189 km Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835)
Hume 23 km David Hume (1711–1776)
Husband 29 km Rick Husband (19572003)
Hutton 50 km James Hutton (1726–1797)
Huxley 4 km Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
Hyginus 9 km Gaius Julius Hyginus (flourished first century BC)
Hypatia 40 km Hypatia of Alexandria (unknown-415 AD)

I

Crater Diameter Eponym
Ian 1 km (Scottish male name)
Ibn Bajja 12.6 km Ibn Bajjah (1095–1138)
Ibn Battuta 11 km Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (1304–1377)
Ibn Firnas 89 km Abbas Ibn Firnas (unknown-circa AD 887)
Ibn Yunus 58 km Abul al-Hasan ben Ahmad (950-1009)
Ibn-Rushd 32 km Averroës (1126–1198)
Icarus 96 km Icarus (mythology)
Ideler 38 km Christian Ludwig Ideler (1766–1846)
Idel'son 60 km Naum Il'ich Idel'son (1885–1951)
Igor 0.1 km Russian male name
Il'in 13 km Nikolaj Yakovlevich Il'in (1901–1937)
Ina 3 km (Latin female name)
Ingalls 37 km Albert Graham Ingalls (1888–1958)
Inghirami 91 km Giovanni Inghirami (1779–1851)
Innes 42 km Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes (1861–1933)
Ioffe 86 km Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (1880–1960)
Isabel 1 km (Spanish female name)
Isaev 90 km Aleksei Mihailovich Isaev (1908–1971)
Isidorus 42 km St. Isidore of Seville (circa 570-636)
Isis 1 km Isis (Egyptian goddess)
Ivan 4 km (Russian male name)
Izsak 30 km Imre Izsak (1929–1965)

J

Crater Diameter Eponym
J. Herschel 165 km John Herschel (1792–1871)
Jackson 71 km John Jackson (1887–1958)
Jacobi 68 km Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851)
Jansen 23 km Zacharias Janszoon (1580-circa 1638)
Jansky 72 km Karl Jansky (1905–1950)
Janssen 199 km Pierre Jules César Janssen (1824–1907)
Jarvis 38 km Gregory Bruce Jarvis (1944–1986)
Jeans 79 km Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1877–1946)
Jehan 5 km (Turkish female name)
Jenkins 38 km Louise Freeland Jenkins (1888–1970)
Jenner 71 km Edward Jenner (1749–1823)
Jerik 1 km (Scandinavian male name)
Joliot 164 km Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958)
Jomo 7 km (African male name)
José 2 km (Spanish male name)
Joule 96 km James Prescott Joule (1818–1889)
Joy 5 km Alfred Harrison Joy (1882–1973)
Jules Verne 143 km Jules Verne (1828–1905)
Julienne 2 km (French female name)
Julius Caesar 90 km Julius Caesar (circa 102-44 BC)

K

Crater Diameter Eponym
Kaiser 52 km Frederik Kaiser (1808–1872)
Kamerlingh Onnes 66 km Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926)
Kane 54 km Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857)
Kant 33 km Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
Kao 34 km Ping-Tse Kao (1888–1970)
Kapteyn 49 km Jacobus C. Kapteyn (1851–1922)
Karima 3 km (Arabic female name)
Karpinskiy 92 km Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky (1846–1936)
Karrer 51 km Paul Karrer (1889–1971)
Kasper 12 km (Polish male name)
Kästner 108 km Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
Katchalsky 32 km Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky (1914–1972)
Kathleen 5 km (Irish female name)
Kearons 23 km William M. Kearons (1878–1948)
Keeler 160 km James Edward Keeler (1857–1900)
Kekulé 94 km Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896)
Keldysh 33 km Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (1911–1978)
Kepinski 31 km Felicjan Kępiński (1885–1966)
Kepler 31 km Johannes Kepler (1571–1630)
Khvol'son 54 km Orest Daniilovich Khvol'son (1852–1934)
Kibal'chich 92 km Nikolaj Ivanovich Kibal'chich (1853–1881)
Kidinnu 56 km Kidinnu (unknown-circa 343 BC).
Kies 45 km Johann Kies (1713–1781)
Kiess 63 km Carl Clarence Kiess (1887–1967)
Kimura 28 km Hisashi Kimura (1870–1943)
Kinau 41 km Adolph Gottfried Kinau (1814–1887)
King 76 km Arthur Scott King (1876–1957)
Edward Skinner King (1861–1931)
Kira 3 km (Russian female name)
Kirch 11 km Gottfried Kirch (1639–1710)
Kircher 72 km Athanasius Kircher (1601–1680)
Kirchhoff 24 km Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887)
Kirkwood 67 km Daniel Kirkwood (1814–1895)
Klaproth 119 km Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743–1817)
Klein 44 km Hermann Joseph Klein (1844–1914)
Kleymenov 55 km Ivan Terentyevich Kleymenov (1898–1938)
Klute 75 km Daniel O. Klute (1921–1964)
Knox-Shaw 12 km Harold Knox-Shaw (1885–1970)
Koch 95 km Robert Koch (1843–1910)
Kocher 21.7 km Emil Kocher (1841–1917)
Kohlschütter 53 km Arnold Kohlschütter (1883–1969)
Kolhörster 97 km Werner Kolhörster (1887–1946)
Kolya 0.1 km Russian male name
Komarov 78 km Vladimir M. Komarov (1927–1967)
Kondratyuk 108 km Yurij V. Kondratyuk (1897–1942)
König 23 km Rudolf König (1865–1927)
Konoplev 25 km B. T. Konoplev (1912–1960)
Konstantinov 75 km Konstantin Ivanovich Konstantinov (1817–1871)
Kopff 41 km August Kopff (1882–1960)
Korolev 437 km Sergei P. Korolev (1906–1966)
Kosberg 15 km Semyon Ariyevich Kosberg (1903–1965)
Kostinskiy 75 km Sergey K. Kostinskiy (1867–1937)
Kostya 0.1 km Russian male name
Koval'skiy 49 km Marian Albertovich Koval'skiy (1821–1884)
Kovalevskaya 115 km Sofia V. Kovalevskaya (1850–1891)
Kozyrev 65 km Nikolay Alexandrovich Kozyrev (1908–1983)
Krafft 51 km Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft (1743–1814)
Kramarov 20 km Grigory Moiseevich Kramarov (1887–1970)
Kramers 61 km Hendrik Anthony Kramers (1894–1952)
Krasnov 40 km Aleksander V. Krasnov (1866–1907)
Krasovskiy 59 km Feodosiy N. Krasovskiy (1878–1948)
Kreiken 23 km Edberg Adrian Kreiken (1896–1964)
Krieger 22 km Johann Nepomuk Krieger (1865–1902)
Krogh 19 km Schack August Steenberg Krogh (1874–1949)
Krusenstern 47 km Baron von Adam Johann Krusenstern (1770–1846)
Krylov 49 km Alexei Krylov (1863–1945)
Kugler 65 km Franz Xaver Kugler (1862–1929)
Kuhn 16.0 km Richard Kuhn (1900–1967)
Kuiper 6 km Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905–1973)
Kulik 58 km Leonid Alekseevich Kulik (1883–1942)
Kundt 10 km August Kundt (1839–1894)
Kunowsky 18 km Georg Karl Friedrich Kunowsky (1786–1846)
Kuo Shou Ching 34 km Kuo Shou Ching (1231–1316)
Kurchatov 106 km Igor' Vasil'evich Kurchatov (1903–1960)

References

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