Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
List of craters on the Moon, C-F
This is a subset of the list of craters on the Moon. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages.
| Craters on the Moon | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-B | C-F | G-K | L-N | O-S | T-Z |
| Contents |
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D
| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| da Vinci | 37 km | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Daedalus | 93 km | Daedalus |
| Dag | 0 km | (Scandinavian male name) |
| Daguerre | 46 km | Louis Daguerre (1789-1851) |
| Dale | 22 km | Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968) |
| D'Alembert | 248 km | Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) |
| Dalton | 60 km | John Dalton (1766-1844) |
| Daly | 17 km | Reginald Aldworth Daly (1871-1957) |
| Damoiseau | 36 km | Marie Charles Theodor De Damoiseau (1768-1846). |
| Daniell | 29 km | John Frederick Daniell (1790-1845) |
| Danjon | 71 km | André Danjon (1890-1967) |
| Dante | 54 km | Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) |
| Darney | 15 km | Maurice Darney (1882-1958) |
| D'Arrest | 30 km | Heinrich L. d'Arrest (1822-1875) |
| D'Arsonval | 28 km | Jacques Arsene d'Arsonval (1851-1940) |
| Darwin | 120 km | Charles Darwin (1809-1882) |
| Das | 38 km | Amil K. Das (1902-1961) |
| Daubrée | 14 km | Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée (1814-1896) |
| Davisson | 87 km | Clinton Joseph Davisson (1881-1958) |
| Davy | 34 km | Humphry Davy (1778-1829) |
| Dawes | 18 km | William Rutter Dawes (1799-1868) |
| Dawson | 45 km | Bernhard H. Dawson (1890-1960) |
| De Forest | 57 km | Lee de Forest (1873-1961) |
| de Gasparis | 30 km | Annibale de Gasparis (1819-1892) |
| de Gerlache | 32.4 km | Adrien de Gerlache (1866-1934) |
| De La Rue | 134 km | Warren de la Rue (1815-1889) |
| De Moraes | 53 km | Abrahão De Moraes (1916-1970) |
| De Morgan | 10 km | Augustus de Morgan (1806-1871) |
| De Roy | 43 km | Felix De Roy (1883-1942) |
| De Sitter | 64 km | Willem de Sitter (1872-1934) |
| De Vico | 20 km | Francesco de Vico (1805-1848) |
| De Vries | 59 km | Hugo de Vries (1848-1935) |
| Debes | 30 km | Ernest Debes (1840-1923) |
| Debus | 20 km | Kurt Heinrich Debus (1908-1983) |
| Debye | 142 km | Peter Debye (1884-1966) |
| Dechen | 12 km | Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen (1800-1889) |
| Delambre | 51 km | Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749-1822) |
| Delaunay | 46 km | Charles-Eugčne Delaunay (1816-1872) |
| Delia | 2 km | (Greek female name) |
| Delisle | 25 km | Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688-1768) |
| Dellinger | 81 km | John Howard Dellinger (1886-1962) |
| Delmotte | 32 km | Gabriel Delmotte (1876-1950) |
| Delporte | 45 km | Eugène Joseph Delporte (1882-1955) |
| Deluc | 46 km | Jean-André Deluc (1727-1817) |
| Dembowski | 26 km | Ercole Dembowski (1815-1881). |
| Democritus | 39 km | Democritus (circa 460-360 B.C.). |
| Demonax | 128 km | Demonax (unknown-circa 100 B.C.) |
| Denning | 44 km | William Frederick Denning (1848-1931) |
| Desargues | 85 km | Gerard Desargues (1593-1662) |
| Descartes | 48 km | René Descartes (1596-1650) |
| Deseilligny | 6 km | Jules Alfred Pierrot Deseilligny (1868-1918) |
| Deslandres | 256 km | Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853-1948) |
| Deutsch | 66 km | Armin Joseph Deutsch (1918-1969) |
| Dewar | 50 km | Sir James Dewar (1842-1923) |
| Diana | 50 km | (Latin feminine name) |
| Diderot | 20 km | Denis Diderot (1713-1784) |
| Dionysius | 18 km | St. Dionysius the Areopagite (A.D. 9-120) |
| Diophantus | 17 km | Diophantus (unknown-circa A.D. 300). |
| Dirichlet | 47 km | Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805-1859) |
| Dobrovol'skiy | 38 km | Georgiy T. Dobrovolskiy (1928-1971) |
| Doerfel | 68 km | Georg Samuel Doerfel (1643-1688) |
| Dollond | 11 km | John Dollond (1826-1873) |
| Donati | 36 km | Giovanni Battista Donati (1826-1873) |
| Donna | 2 km | (Italian female name) |
| Donner | 58 km | Anders Severin Donner (1854-1938) |
| Doppelmayer | 63 km | Johann Gabriel Doppelmayer (1671-1750) |
| Doppler | 110 km | J. Christian Doppler (1803-1853) |
| Douglass | 49 km | Andrew Ellicott Douglass (1867-1962) |
| Dove | 30 km | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803-1879) |
| Draper | 8 km | Henry Draper (1837-1882) |
| Drebbel | 30 km | Cornelius Drebbel (1572-1634) |
| Dreyer | 61 km | John L. E. Dreyer (1852-1926) |
| Drude | 24 km | Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (1863-1906) |
| Dryden | 51 km | Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898-1965) |
| Drygalski | 149 km | Erich Dagobert von Drygalski (1865-1949) |
| Dubyago | 51 km | Dmitrij I. Dubyago (1850-1918) |
| Alexander D. Dubyago (1903-1959) | ||
| Dufay | 39 km | Jean Dufay (1896-1967) |
| Dugan | 50 km | Raymond Smith Dugan (1878-1940) |
| Dunér | 62 km | Nils Christoffer Dunér (1839-1914) |
| Dunthorne | 15 km | Richard Dunthorne (1711-1775) |
| Dyson | 63 km | Sir Frank Watson Dyson (1868-1939) |
| Dziewulski | 63 km | Wladyslaw Dziewulski (1878-1962) |
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| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| Eckert | 2 km | Wallace John Eckert |
| Eddington | 118 km | Arthur Stanley Eddington |
| Edison | 62 km | Thomas Edison |
| Edith | 8 km | (English female name) |
| Egede | 37 km | Hans Egede |
| Ehrlich | 30 km | Paul Ehrlich |
| Eichstadt | 49 km | Lorentz Eichstadt |
| Eijkman | 54 km | Christiaan Eijkman |
| Eimmart | 46 km | Georg Christoph Eimmart |
| Einstein | 198 km | Albert Einstein |
| Einthoven | 69 km | Willem Einthoven |
| Elger | 21 km | Thomas Gwyn Elger |
| Ellerman | 47 km | Ferdinand Ellerman |
| Ellison | 36 km | Mervyn Archdall Ellison |
| Elmer | 36 km | Charles Wesley Elmer |
| Elvey | 74 km | Christian Thomas Elvey |
| Emden | 111 km | J. Robert Emden |
| Encke | 28 km | Johann Franz Encke |
| Endymion | 123 km | Endymion |
| Engel'gardt | 43 km | Vasilij P. Engel'gardt (Engelhardt) |
| Eötvös | 99 km | Roland von Eötvös |
| Epigenes | 55 km | Epigenes |
| Epimenides | 27 km | Epimenides |
| Eratosthenes | 58 km | Eratosthenes |
| Erro | 61 km | Luis Enrique Erro |
| Esclangon | 15 km | Ernest Esclangon |
| Esnault-Pelterie | 790 km | Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie |
| Espin | 75 km | Rev. Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin |
| Euclides | 11 km | Euclid |
| Euctemon | 62 km | Euctemon |
| Eudoxus | 67 km | Eudoxus of Cnidus |
| Euler | 27 km | Leonhard Euler |
| Evans | 67 km | Sir Arthur Evans |
| Evdokimov | 50 km | Nikolaj N. Evdokimov |
| Evershed | 66 km | John Evershed |
| Ewen | 3 km | (Gaelic male name) |
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10-26-2009 08:16:03
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