You can see an account of how these features were named and links to files of whom they were called after.
Be warned that the list of lunar crater names is large (about 2.7MB).
If you go to the larger file (88K) you can see the features courtesy of the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
Click on the name to go to the biography
| CATENAS | ||
| Catena Gregory (James) | Catena Sylvester |
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M MacLaurin Markov Maskelyne Maupertuis Maurolycus Maxwell C. Mayer T. Mayer Menelaus Mercator (Gerard) Mersenius Meshcherskiy Miller Milne Mineur Minkowski Mobius Monge |
O Ohm Omar Khayyam Oresme
P |
Q Quetelet
R |
| FOSSA |
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Fossa Cauchy |
| MONS | ||
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Mons Ampere Montes Archimedes |
Mons Huygens Mons La Hire |
Mons Euler (now called Mons Vinogradov) |
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PROMONTORIA | ||
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Promontorium Fresnel |
Promontorium Kelvin |
Promontorium Laplace |
| RUPES | ||
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Rupes Cauchy | Rupes Kelvin | Rupes Mercator (Gerard) |
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VALLES | ||
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Vallis Bohr (Niels) Vallis Planck |
Vallis Schrodinger |
Vallis Snellius |
The URL of this page is:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Societies/LunarFeatures.html