Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
List of craters on the Moon, O-S
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 |
O
| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| Oberth | 60 km | Hermann Oberth |
| Obruchev | 71 km | Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev |
| O'Day | 71 km | Marcus O'Day |
| Oenopides | 67 km | Oenopides of Chios |
| Oersted | 42 km | Hans Christian Ørsted |
| Ohm | 64 km | Georg Simon Ohm |
| Oken | 71 km | Lorenz Oken |
| Olbers | 74 km | Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers |
| Olcott | 81 km | William Tyler Olcott |
| Olivier | 69 km | Charles Pollard Olivier |
| Omar Khayyam | 70 km | Omar Khayyam |
| Onizuka | 29 km | Ellison Onizuka |
| Opelt | 48 km | Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt |
| Oppenheimer | 208 km | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| Oppolzer | 40 km | Theodor von Oppolzen |
| Oresme | 76 km | Nicolaus von Oresme |
| Orlov | 81 km | Aleksandr V. Orlov |
| Sergei Vladimirovich Orlov | ||
| Orontius | 105 km | Oronce Finé |
| Osama | 0.5 km | (Arabic male name) |
| Osiris | 1 km | Osiris (Egyptian deity) |
| Osman | 2 km | (Turkish male name) |
| Ostwald | 104 km | Wilhelm Ostwald |
P
| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| Palisa | 33 km | Johann Palisa |
| Palitzsch | 41 km | Johann Palitzsch |
| Pallas | 46 km | Peter Simon Pallas |
| Palmieri | 40 km | Luigi Palmieri |
| Paneth | 65 km | Friedrich Adolf Paneth |
| Pannekoek | 71 km | Anton Pannekoek |
| Papaleksi | 97 km | Nikolaj D. Papaleksi |
| Paracelsus | 83 km | Paracelsus |
| Paraskevopoulos | 94 km | John S. Paraskevopoulos |
| Parenago | 93 km | Pavel Petrovich Parenago |
| Parkhurst | 96 km | John Adelbert Parkhurst |
| Parrot | 70 km | Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot |
| Parry | 47 km | William Edward Parry |
| Parsons | 40 km | John W. Parsons |
| Pascal | 115 km | Blaise Pascal |
| Paschen | 124 km | Friedrich Paschen |
| Pasteur | 224 km | Louis Pasteur |
| Patricia | 5 km | (English female name) |
| Patsaev | 55 km | Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev |
| Pauli | 84 km | Wolfgang Pauli |
| Pavlov | 148 km | Ivan Pavlov |
| Pawsey | 60 km | Joseph Pawsey |
| Peary | 73 km | Robert Peary |
| Pease | 38 km | Francis G. Pease |
| Peek | 12 km | Bertrand Meigh Peek |
| Peirce | 18 km | Benjamin Peirce |
| Peirescius | 61 km | Nicholas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc |
| Pentland | 56 km | Joseph Barclay Pentland |
| Perel'man | 46 km | Yakov Isidorovich Perelman |
| Perepelkin | 97 km | Evgenij J. Perepelkin |
| Perkin | 62 km | Richard Scott Perkin |
| Perrine | 86 km | Charles Dillon Perrine |
| Petavius | 188 km | Denis Petau |
| Petermann | 73 km | August Heinrich Petermann |
| Peters | 15 km | Christian August Friedrich Peters |
| Petit | 5 km | Alexis Therese Petit |
| Petrie | 33 km | Robert Methven Petrie |
| Petropavlovskiy | 63 km | Boris S. Petropavlovskiy |
| Petrov | 49 km | Evgenij S. Petrov |
| Pettit | 35 km | Edison Pettit |
| Petzval | 90 km | Joseph von Petzval |
| Phillips | 122 km | John Phillips |
| Philolaus | 70 km | Philolaus of Croton |
| Phocylides | 121 km | Johannes Phocylides Holwarda (Jan Fokker) |
| Piazzi | 134 km | Giuseppe Piazzi |
| Piazzi Smyth | 13 km | Charles Piazzi Smyth |
| Picard | 22 km | Jean Picard |
| Piccolomini | 87 km | Alessandro Piccolomini |
| Pickering | 15 km | Edward Charles Pickering |
| William Henry Pickering | ||
| Pictet | 62 km | Marc-Auguste Pictet |
| Pikel'ner | 47 km | Solomon Borisovich Pikelner |
| Pilâtre | 50 km | Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier |
| Pingré | 88 km | Alexandre Guy Pingré |
| Pirquet | 65 km | Baron Guido von Pirquet |
| Pitatus | 106 km | Pietro Pitati |
| Pitiscus | 82 km | Bartholemaeus Pitiscus |
| Pizzetti | 44 km | Paolo Pizzetti |
| Plana | 44 km | Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana |
| Planck | 314 km | Max Planck |
| Planté | 37 km | Gaston Planté |
| Plaskett | 109 km | John Stanley Plaskett |
| Plato | 109 km | Plato |
| Playfair | 47 km | John Playfair |
| Plinius | 43 km | Pliny the Elder |
| Plummer | 73 km | Henry C. Plummer |
| Plutarch | 68 km | Plutarch |
| Poczobutt | 195 km | Martin Odlanicky Poczobutt |
| Pogson | 50 km | Norman Robert Pogson |
| Poincaré | 319 km | Henri Poincaré |
| Poinsot | 68 km | Louis Poinsot |
| Poisson | 42 km | Simeon Poisson |
| Polybius | 41 km | Polybius |
| Polzunov | 67 km | Ivan Ivanovich Polzunov |
| Pomortsev | 23 km | Mikhail Mikhailovich Pomortsev |
| Poncelet | 69 km | Jean-Victor Poncelet |
| Pons | 41 km | Jean-Louis Pons |
| Pontanus | 57 km | Giovanni Gioviani Pontano |
| Pontécoulant | 91 km | Philippe Gustave Doulcet , Comte De Pontécoulant |
| Popov | 65 km | Aleksander Stepanovich Popov |
| C. Popov | ||
| Porter | 51 km | Russell Williams Porter |
| Posidonius | 95 km | Posidonius |
| Poynting | 128 km | John Henry Poynting |
| Prager | 60 km | Richard A. Prager |
| Prandtl | 91 km | Ludwig Prandtl |
| Priestley | 52 km | Joseph Priestley |
| Prinz | 46 km | Wilhelm Prinz |
| Priscilla | 1.8 km | (Latin female name) |
| Proclus | 28 km | Proclus Diadochus |
| Proctor | 52 km | Mary Proctor |
| Protagoras | 21 km | Protagoras |
| Ptolemaeus | 164 km | Ptolemy |
| Puiseux | 24 km | Pierre Puiseux |
| Pupin | 2 km | Mihajlo Pupin |
| Purbach | 115 km | Georg Purbach |
| Purkynĕ | 48 km | Jan Purkinje |
| Pythagoras | 142 km | Pythagoras |
| Pytheas | 20 km | Pytheas |
Q
| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| Quetelet | 55 km | Adolphe Quetelet |
R
S
| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| Sabatier | 10 km | Paul Sabatier |
| Sabine | 30 km | Edward Sabine |
| Sacrobosco | 98 km | Johannes Sacrobuschus (John Holywood) |
| Saenger | 75 km | Eugen Saenger |
| Šafařík | 27 km | Vojtech Šafařík |
| Saha | 99 km | Meghnad Saha |
| Samir | 2 km | (Arabic male name) |
| Sampson | 1 km | Ralph Allen Sampson |
| Sanford | 55 km | Roscoe F. Sanford |
| Santbech | 64 km | Daniel Santbech Noviomagus |
| Santos-Dumont | 8 km | Alberto Santos-Dumont |
| Sarabhai | 7 km | Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai |
| Sarton | 69 km | George A. L. Sarton |
| Sasserides | 90 km | Gellio Sasceride |
| Saunder | 44 km | Samuel Arthur Saunder |
| Saussure | 54 km | Horace-Bénédict de Saussure |
| Scaliger | 84 km | Joseph Justus Scaliger |
| Schaeberle | 62 km | John Martin Schaeberle |
| Scheele | 4 km | Carl Wilhelm Scheele |
| Scheiner | 110 km | Christopher Scheiner |
| Schiaparelli | 24 km | Giovanni Schiaparelli |
| Schickard | 206 km | Wilhelm Schickard |
| Schiller | 180 km | Julius Schiller |
| Schjellerup | 62 km | Hans Carl Frederik Christian Schjellerup |
| Schlesinger | 97 km | Frank Schlesinger |
| Schliemann | 80 km | Heinrich Schliemann |
| Schlüter | 89 km | Heinrich Schlüter |
| Schmidt | 11 km | Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt |
| Bernhard Schmidt | ||
| Otto Yulyevich Schmidt | ||
| Schneller | 54 km | Herbert Schneller |
| Schomberger | 85 km | Georg Schomberger |
| Schönfeld | 25 km | Eduard Schönfeld |
| Schorr | 53 km | Richard Schorr |
| Schrödinger | 312 km | Erwin Schrödinger |
| Schröter | 35 km | Johann Hieronymus Schröter |
| Schubert | 54 km | Theodor Friedrich von Schubert |
| Schumacher | 60 km | Heinrich Christian Schumacher |
| Schuster | 108 km | Arthur Schuster |
| Schwabe | 25 km | Samuel Heinrich Schwabe |
| Schwarzschild | 212 km | Karl Schwarzschild |
| Scobee | 40 km | Dick Scobee |
| Scoresby | 55 km | William Scoresby |
| Scott | 103 km | Robert F. Scott |
| Seares | 110 km | Frederick H. Seares |
| Secchi | 22 km | Angelo Secchi |
| Sechenov | 62 km | Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov |
| Seeliger | 8 km | Hugo Hans Ritter von Seeliger |
| Segers | 17 km | Carlos Segers |
| Segner | 67 km | Johann Andreas von Segner |
| Seidel | 62 km | Philipp Ludwig von Seidel |
| Seleucus | 43 km | Seleucus |
| Seneca | 46 km | Seneca the Younger |
| Seyfert | 110 km | Carl Seyfert |
| Shackleton | 19 km | Ernest Shackleton |
| Shahinaz | 15 km | (Turkish female name) |
| Shaler | 48 km | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler |
| Shapley | 23 km | Harlow Shapley |
| Sharonov | 74 km | Vsevolod Vasilievich Sharonov |
| Sharp | 39 km | Abraham Sharp |
| Shatalov | 21 km | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov |
| Shayn | 93 km | Grigory Abramovich Shajn |
| Sheepshanks | 25 km | Anne Sheepshanks |
| Sherrington | 18 km | Charles Scott Sherrington |
| Shi Shen | 43 km | Shi Shen |
| Shirakatsi | 51 km | Anania Shirakatsi |
| Shoemaker | 50.9 km | Eugene Shoemaker |
| Short | 70 km | James Short |
| Shternberg | 70 km | Pavel K. Shternberg (Sternberg) |
| Shuckburgh | 38 km | George Shuckburgh |
| Shuleykin | 15 km | M. V. Shuleykin |
| Siedentopf | 61 km | Heinrich Siedentopf |
| Sierpinski | 69 km | Waclaw Sierpinski |
| Sikorsky | 98 km | Igor Sikorsky |
| Silberschlag | 13 km | Johann Esaias Silberschlag |
| Simpelius | 70 km | Hugh Sempill |
| Sinas | 11 km | Simon Sinas |
| Sirsalis | 42 km | Gerolamo Sersale |
| Sisakyan | 34 km | Norajr Martirosovich Sisakyan |
| Sita | 2 km | (Indian female name) |
| Sklodowska | 127 km | Marie Curie |
| Slipher | 69 km | Earl C. Slipher |
| Vesto Slipher | ||
| Slocum | 13 km | Frederick Slocum |
| Smith | 34 km | Michael J. Smith |
| Smithson | 5 km | James Smithson |
| Smoluchowski | 83 km | Marian Smoluchowski |
| Snellius | 82 km | Willebrord Snell |
| Sniadecki | 43 km | Jan Sniadecki |
| Soddy | 42 km | Frederick Soddy |
| Somerville | 15 km | Mary Fairfax Somerville |
| Sommerfeld | 169 km | Arnold Sommerfeld |
| Sömmering | 28 km | Samuel Thomas Sömmering |
| Sophocles | 0 km | Sophocles |
| Soraya | 2 km | (Persian female name) |
| Sosigenes | 17 km | Sosigenes |
| South | 104 km | James South |
| Spallanzani | 32 km | Lazzaro Spallanzani |
| Spencer Jones | 85 km | Harold Spencer Jones |
| Spörer | 27 km | Gustav Spörer |
| Spurr | 13 km | Josiah Edward Spurr |
| St. John | 68 km | Charles E. St. John |
| Stadius | 69 km | Jan Stade |
| Stark | 49 km | Johannes Stark |
| Stearns | 36 km | Carl Leo Stearns |
| Stebbins | 131 km | Joel Stebbins |
| Stefan | 125 km | Josef Stefan |
| Stein | 33 km | Johan Willem Jakob Antoon Stein |
| Steinheil | 67 km | Karl August von Steinheil |
| Steklov | 36 km | Vladimir Andreevich Steklov |
| Stella | 1 km | (Latin female name) |
| Steno | 31 km | Nicolaus Steno |
| Sternfeld | 100 km | Ary A. Sternfeld |
| Stetson | 64 km | Harlan T. Stetson |
| Stevinus | 74 km | Simon Stevin |
| Stewart | 13 km | John Quincy Stewart |
| Stiborius | 43 km | Andreas Stoberl |
| Stöfler | 126 km | Johannes Stöffler |
| Stokes | 51 km | George Stokes |
| Stoletov | 42 km | Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov |
| Stoney | 45 km | George Johnstone Stoney |
| Störmer | 69 km | Fredrik Carl Mülertz Störmer |
| Strabo | 55 km | Strabo |
| Stratton | 70 km | Frederick John Marrion Stratton |
| Street | 57 km | Thomas Street |
| Strömgren | 61 km | Elis Strömgren |
| Struve | 164 km | Otto Wilhelm von Struve |
| Otto Struve | ||
| Friedrich Struve | ||
| Subbotin | 67 km | Mikhail Fedorovich Subbotin |
| Suess | 8 km | Eduard Suess |
| Sulpicius Gallus | 12 km | Sulpicius Gallus |
| Sumner | 50 km | Thomas Hubbard Sumner |
| Sundman | 40 km | Karl Fritiof Sundman |
| Sung-Mei | 5 km | (Chinese female name) |
| Susan | 1 km | (English female name) |
| Sverdrup | 35 km | Otto Sverdrup |
| Swann | 42 km | William Francis Gray Swann |
| Swasey | 23 km | Ambrose Swasey |
| Swift | 10 km | Lewis Swift |
| Sylvester | 58 km | James Joseph Sylvester |
| Szilard | 122 km | Leó Szilárd |
Last updated: 06-06-2005 14:45:40
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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