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List of craters on the Moon, G-K
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 |
G
| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| G. Bond | 20 km | George Phillips Bond |
| Gadomski | 65 km | Jan Gadomski |
| Gagarin | 265 km | Yuri Gagarin |
| Galen | 10 km | Claudius Galen |
| Galilaei | 15 km | Galileo Galilei |
| Galle | 21 km | Johann Gottfried Galle |
| Galois | 222 km | Evariste Galois |
| Galvani | 80 km | Luigi Galvani |
| Gambart | 25 km | Jean Felix Gambart |
| Gamow | 129 km | George Gamow |
| Ganskiy | 43 km | Aleksey P. (Hansky) Ganskiy |
| Ganswindt | 74 km | Hermann Ganswindt |
| Garavito | 74 km | Julio Garavito Armero |
| Gardner | 18 km | Irvine Clifton Gardner |
| Gärtner | 115 km | Christian Gärtner |
| Gassendi | 101 km | Pierre Gassendi |
| Gaston | 2 km | (French male name) |
| Gaudibert | 34 km | Casimir Marie Gaudibert |
| Gauricus | 79 km | Luca Gaurico |
| Gauss | 177 km | Carl Friedrich Gauss |
| Gavrilov | 60 km | Aleksandr I. Gavrilov |
| Igor B. Gavrilov | ||
| Gay-Lussac | 26 km | Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac |
| Geber | 44 km | Gabir Ben Aflah |
| Geiger | 34 km | Johannes Hans Wilhelm Geiger |
| Geissler | 16 km | Heinrich Geissler |
| Geminus | 85 km | Geminus |
| Gemma Frisius | 87 km | Reinier Jemma |
| Gerard | 90 km | Alexander Gerard |
| Gerasimovich | 86 km | Boris Gerasimovich |
| Gernsback | 48 km | Hugo Gernsback |
| Gibbs | 76 km | Josiah Willard Gibbs |
| Gilbert | 112 km | Grove Karl Gilbert |
| Gill | 66 km | David Gill |
| Ginzel | 55 km | Friedrich Karl Ginzel |
| Gioja | 41 km | Flavio Gioja |
| Giordano Bruno | 22 km | Giordano Bruno |
| Glaisher | 15 km | James Glaisher |
| Glauber | 15 km | Johann Rudolph Glauber |
| Glazenap | 43 km | Sergej Pavlovich von Glazenap |
| Glushko | 43 km | Valentin Petrovitch Glushko |
| Goclenius | 72 km | Rudolf Gockel |
| Goddard | 89 km | Robert Goddard |
| Godin | 34 km | Louis Godin |
| Goldschmidt | 113 km | Hermann Goldschmidt |
| Golgi | 5 km | Camillo Golgi |
| Golitsyn | 36 km | Boris Borisovich Golitsyn |
| Golovin | 37 km | Nicholas Erasmus Golovin |
| Goodacre | 46 km | Walter Goodacre |
| Gould | 34 km | Benjamin Gould |
| Grace | 1 km | (English female name) |
| Grachev | 35 km | Andrej D. Grachev |
| Graff | 36 km | Kasimir Romuald Graff |
| Grave | 40 km | Dmitriy A. Grave |
| Ivan P. Grave | ||
| Greaves | 13 km | William Michael Herbert Greaves |
| Green | 65 km | George Green |
| Gregory | 67 km | James Gregory |
| Grigg | 36 km | John Grigg |
| Grimaldi | 172 km | Francesco Grimaldi |
| Grissom | 58 km | Gus Grissom |
| Grotrian | 37 km | Walter Grotrian |
| Grove | 28 km | Sir William Robert Grove |
| Gruemberger | 93 km | Christoph Gruemberger |
| Gruithuisen | 15 km | Franz von Gruithuisen |
| Guericke | 63 km | Otto von Guericke |
| Guillaume | 57 km | Charles Guillaume |
| Gullstrand | 43 km | Allvar Gullstrand |
| Gum | 54 km | Colin Stanley Gum |
| Gutenberg | 74 km | Johann Gutenberg |
| Guthnick | 36 km | Paul Guthnick |
| Guyot | 92 km | Arnold Guyot |
| Gyldén | 47 km | Hugo Gyldén |
H
I
| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| Ian | 1 km | (Scottish male name) |
| Ibn Battuta | 11 km | Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta |
| Ibn Firnas | 89 km | Abbas Ibn Firnas |
| Ibn Yunus | 58 km | Abu Muhammad Ibn-Rushd (Averrdes) |
| Ibn-Rushd | 32 km | Averroes |
| Icarus | 96 km | Icarus (mythology) |
| Ideler | 38 km | Christian Ludwig Ideler |
| Idel'son | 60 km | Naum I. Idel'son |
| Il'in | 13 km | N. Ja. Il'in |
| Ina | 3 km | (Latin female name) |
| Ingalls | 37 km | Albert L. Ingalls |
| Inghirami | 91 km | Giovanni Inghirami |
| Innes | 42 km | Robert T. A. Innes |
| Ioffe | 86 km | Abram Fedorovich Ioffe |
| Isabel | 1 km | (Spanish female name) |
| Isaev | 90 km | Aleksei Mihailovich Isaev |
| Isidorus | 42 km | St. Isidore of Seville |
| Isis | 1 km | Isis (Egyptian goddess) |
| Ivan | 4 km | (Russian male name) |
| Izsak | 30 km | Imre Izsak |
J
| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| J. Herschel | 165 km | John Herschel |
| Jackson | 71 km | John Jackson |
| Jacobi | 68 km | Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi |
| Jansen | 23 km | Zacharias Janszoon |
| Jansky | 72 km | Karl Jansky |
| Janssen | 199 km | Pierre Janssen |
| Jarvis | 38 km | Gregory Jarvis |
| Jeans | 79 km | James Jeans |
| Jehan | 5 km | (Turkish female name) |
| Jenkins | 38 km | Louise Jenkins |
| Jenner | 71 km | Edward Jenner |
| Jerik | 1 km | (Scandinavian male name) |
| Joliot | 164 km | Frederic Joliot-Curie |
| Jomo | 7 km | (African male name) |
| José | 2 km | (Spanish male name) |
| Joule | 96 km | James Joule |
| Joy | 5 km | Alfred H. Joy |
| Jules Verne | 143 km | Jules Verne |
| Julienne | 2 km | (French female name) |
| Julius Caesar | 90 km | Julius Caesar |
K
| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | 52 km | Frederik Kaiser |
| Kamerlingh Onnes | 66 km | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes |
| Kane | 54 km | Elisha Kent Kane |
| Kant | 33 km | Immanuel Kant |
| Kao | 34 km | Ping-Tse Kao |
| Kapteyn | 49 km | Jacobus Kapteyn |
| Karima | 3 km | (Arabic female name) |
| Karpinskiy | 92 km | Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky |
| Karrer | 51 km | Paul Karrer |
| Kasper | 12 km | (Polish male name) |
| Kästner | 108 km | Abraham Kästner |
| Katchalsky | 32 km | Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky |
| Kathleen | 5 km | (Irish female name) |
| Kearons | 23 km | William M. Kearons |
| Keeler | 160 km | James Edward Keeler |
| Kekulé | 94 km | Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz |
| Keldysh | 33 km | Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh |
| Kepínski | 31 km | Felicjan Kepínski |
| Kepler | 31 km | Johannes Kepler |
| Khvol'son | 54 km | Orest Daniilovich Khvol'son |
| Kibal'chich | 92 km | Nikolaj I. Kibal'chich |
| Kidinnu | 56 km | Kidinnu |
| Kies | 45 km | Johann Kies |
| Kiess | 63 km | Carl Clarence Kiess |
| Kimura | 28 km | Hisashi Kimura |
| Kinau | 41 km | C. A. Kinau |
| King | 76 km | Arthur Scott King |
| Edward Skinner King | ||
| Kira | 3 km | (Russian female name) |
| Kirch | 11 km | Gottfried Kirch |
| Kircher | 72 km | Athanasius Kircher |
| Kirchhoff | 24 km | Gustav Kirchhoff |
| Kirkwood | 67 km | Daniel Kirkwood |
| Klaproth | 119 km | Martin Heinrich Klaproth |
| Klein | 44 km | Hermann Joseph Klein |
| Kleymenov | 55 km | Ivan Terentyevich Kleymenov |
| Klute | 75 km | Daniel O. Klute |
| Knox-Shaw | 12 km | Harold Knox-Shaw |
| Koch | 95 km | Robert Koch |
| Kohlschütter | 53 km | Arnold Kohlschütter |
| Kolhörster | 97 km | Werner Kolhörster |
| Komarov | 78 km | Vladimir Komarov |
| Kondratyuk | 108 km | Yuri Kondratyuk |
| König | 23 km | Rudolf König |
| Konoplev | 25 km | B.T. Konoplev |
| Konstantinov | 75 km | Konstantin I. Konstantinov |
| Kopff | 41 km | August Kopff |
| Korolev | 437 km | Sergei Korolev |
| Kosberg | 15 km | Semyon Ariyevich Kosberg |
| Kostinskiy | 75 km | Sergey K. Kostinskiy |
| Koval'skiy | 49 km | M. A. Koval'sky |
| Kovalevskaya | 115 km | Sofia Kovalevskaya |
| Kozyrev | 65 km | Nikolay Alexandrovich Kozyrev |
| Krafft | 51 km | Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft |
| Kramarov | 20 km | G. M. Kramarov |
| Kramers | 61 km | Hendrik Anton Kramers |
| Krasnov | 40 km | Aleksander V. Krasnov |
| Krasovskiy | 59 km | Feodosiy N. Krasovskiy |
| Kreiken | 23 km | Edberg Adrian Kreiken |
| Krieger | 22 km | Johann Nepomuk Krieger |
| Krishna | 3 km | (Indian male name) |
| Krogh | 19 km | Schack August Steenberg Krogh |
| Krusenstern | 47 km | Baron von Adam Johann Krusenstern |
| Krylov | 49 km | Aleksej Nikolaevich Krylov |
| Kugler | 65 km | Franz Xaver Kugler |
| Kuiper | 6 km | Gerard Peter Kuiper |
| Kulik | 58 km | Leonid A. Kulik |
| Kundt | 10 km | August Kundt |
| Kunowsky | 18 km | George K. Kunowsky |
| Kuo Shou Ching | 34 km | Kuo Shou Ching |
| Kurchatov | 106 km | Igor Kurchatov |
Last updated: 06-06-2005 14:45:34
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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