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List of craters on the Moon

This is a list of craters on the Moon. The large majority of these features are impact craters. The crater nomenclature is governed by the International Astronomical Union, and this listing only includes features that are officially recognized by that scientific society.

NOTE: Please list only official names approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).^[2]

Craters

The lunar craters are listed in the following subsections. Where a formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages.

See also

• List of lunar features
• List of people with craters of the Moon named after them
• List of maria on the Moon
• List of mountains on the Moon
• List of valleys on the Moon
• Selenography

References

The following sources were used as references on the individual crater pages.

• Andersson, L. E.; Whitaker, E. A., (1982). NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature. NASA RP-1097.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Blue, Jennifer (July 25, 2007). "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature". USGS. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
• Bussey, B.; Spudis, P., (2004). The Clementine Atlas of the Moon. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81528-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Cocks, Elijah E.; Cocks, Josiah C. (1995). Who's Who on the Moon: A Biographical Dictionary of Lunar Nomenclature. Tudor Publishers. ISBN 0-936389-27-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• McDowell, Jonathan (July 15, 2007). "Lunar Nomenclature". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
• Menzel, Donald H. (February 1971). "Final Report on NGR 22-007-194, Lunar Nomenclature" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
• Menzel, D. H.; Minnaert, M.; Levin, B.; Dollfus, A.; Bell, B. (1971). "Report on Lunar Nomenclature by The Working Group of Commission 17 of the IAU". Space Science Reviews. 12 (2): 136. Bibcode:1971SSRv...12..136M. doi:10.1007/BF00171763.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Moore, Patrick (2001). On the Moon. Sterling Publishing Co. ISBN 0-304-35469-4.
• Price, Fred W. (1988). The Moon observer's handbook. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-33500-0.
• Rükl, Antonín (1990). Atlas of the Moon. Kalmbach Books. ISBN 0-913135-17-8.
• Webb, Rev. T. W. (1962). Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes (6th revision ed.). Dover. ISBN 0-486-20917-2.
• Whitaker, Ewen A. (1999). Mapping and Naming the Moon. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-62248-4.
• Wlasuk, Peter T. (2000). Observing the Moon. Springer. ISBN 1-85233-193-3.

External links

The following reference sites were also used during the assembly of the crater information.

• Astronomica Langrenus — Italian Lunar Web Site
• Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
• Lunar Atlases at the Lunar & Planetary Institute
  • Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
• Lunar Nomenclature
• Lunar Photo of the Day by Charles A. Wood et al.