List of craters on the Moon, L-N
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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.
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| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
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| Mach | 180 km | Ernst Mach (1838-1916) |
| Maclaurin | 50 km | Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746) |
| Maclear | 20 km | Thomas Maclear (1794-1879) |
| MacMillan | 7 km | William Duncan MacMillan (1871-1948) |
| Macrobius | 64 km | Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius (unknown-flourished circa 410) |
| Mädler | 27 km | Johann Heinrich Mädler (1794-1874) |
| Maestlin | 7 km | Michael Maestlin (1550-1631) |
| Magelhaens | 40 km | Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) |
| Maginus | 194 km | Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555-1617) |
| Main | 46 km | Robert Main (1808-1878) |
| Mairan | 40 km | Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (1678-1771) |
| Maksutov | 83 km | Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896-1964) |
| Malapert | 69 km | Charles Malapert (1581-1630) |
| Mallet | 58 km | Robert Mallet (1810-1881) |
| Malyy | 41 km | Aleksandr L. Malyy (1907-1961) |
| Mandel'shtam | 197 km | Leonid Isaakovich Mandel'shtam (1879-1944) |
| Manilius | 38 km | Marcus Manilius (unknown-circa 50 B.C.) |
| Manners | 15 km | Russell Henry Manners (1800-1870) |
| Manuel | 0.5 km | (Spanish male name) |
| Manzinus | 98 km | Carlo Antonio Manzini (1599-1677) |
| Maraldi | 39 km | Giovanni Domenico Maraldi (1709-1788) |
| Jacques Philippe Maraldi (1665-1729) | ||
| Marci | 25 km | Jan Marek Marci von Kronland (1595-1667) |
| Marco Polo | 28 km | Marco Polo (1254-1324) |
| Marconi | 73 km | Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) |
| Marinus | 58 km | Marinus of Tyre (circa 70-circa 130 AD) |
| Mariotte | 65 km | Edme Mariotte (1620-1684) |
| Marius | 41 km | Simon Marius (1570-1624) |
| Markov | 40 km | Aleksandr Vladimirovich Markov (1897-1968) |
| Andrei Andreevich Markov (1856-1922) | ||
| Marth | 6 km | Albert Marth (1828-1897) |
| Mary | 1 km | (English form of Hebrew female name) |
| Maskelyne | 23 km | Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811) |
| Mason | 33 km | Charles Mason (1730-1787) |
| Maunder | 55 km | Annie Scott Dill Maunder (née Russell) (1868-1947) |
| Edward Walter Maunder (1851-1928) | ||
| Maupertuis | 45 km | Pierre Louis de Maupertuis (1698-1759) |
| Maurolycus | 114 km | Francesco Maurolico (1494-1575) |
| Maury | 17 km | Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) |
| Antonia Caetana Maury (1866-1952) | ||
| Mavis | 1 km | (Scottish female name) |
| Maxwell | 107 km | James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) |
| McAdie | 45 km | Alexander George McAdie (1863-1943) |
| McAuliffe | 19 km | Christa McAuliffe (1948-1986) |
| McClure | 23 km | Robert Le Mesurier McClure (1807-1873) |
| McCool | 21 km | William Cameron McCool (1961–2003) |
| McDonald | 7 km | William Johnson McDonald (1844-1926) |
| Thomas Logie McDonald (1901-1973) | ||
| McKellar | 51 km | Andrew McKellar (1910-1960) |
| McLaughlin | 79 km | Dean Benjamin McLaughlin (1901-1965) |
| McMath | 86 km | Francis Charles McMath (1867-1938) |
| Robert Raynolds McMath (1891-1962) | ||
| McNair | 29 km | Ronald Erwin McNair (1950-1986) |
| McNally | 47 km | Paul A. McNally (1890-1955) |
| Mechnikov | 60 km | Il'ya Il'ich Mechnikov (1845-1916) |
| Mee | 126 km | Arthur Butler Phillips Mee (1860-1926) |
| Mees | 50 km | Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (1882-1960) |
| Meggers | 52 km | William F. Meggers (1888-1968) |
| Meitner | 87 km | Lise Meitner (1878-1968) |
| Melissa | 18 km | (Greek female name) |
| Mendel | 138 km | Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) |
| Mendeleev | 313 km | Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907) |
| Menelaus | 26 km | Menelaus of Alexandria (circa' A.D. 98) |
| Menzel | 3 km | Donald Howard Menzel (1901-1976) |
| Mercator | 46 km | Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) |
| Mercurius | 67 km | Mercury |
| Merrill | 57 km | Paul Merrill (1887-1961) |
| Mersenius | 84 km | Marin Mersenne (1588-1648) |
| Meshcherskiy | 65 km | Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshcherskiy (1859-1935) |
| Messala | 125 km | Messala (unknown-circa 815) |
| Messier | 11 km | Charles Messier (1730-1817) |
| Metius | 87 km | Adriaan Adriaanszoon (known as Metius) (1571-1635) |
| Meton | 130 km | Meton (unknown-flourished 432 B.C.) |
| Mezentsev | 89 km | Yurij B. Mezentsev (1929-1965) |
| Michael | 180 km | (English male name) |
| Michelson | 123 km | Albert A. Michelson (1852-1931) |
| Milankovic | 101 km | Milutin Milanković (1879-1958) |
| Milichius | 12 km | Jacob Milich (1501-1559) |
| Miller | 61 km | William Allen Miller (1817-1870) |
| Millikan | 98 km | Robert Millikan (1868-1953) |
| Mills | 32 km | Mark Muir Mills (1917-1958) |
| Milne | 272 km | E. Arthur Milne (1896-1950) |
| Mineur | 73 km | Henri Mineur (1899-1954) |
| Minkowski | 113 km | Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909) |
| Rudolph Minkowski (1895-1976) | ||
| Minnaert | 125 km | Marcel Minnaert (1893-1970) |
| Mitchell | 30 km | Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) |
| Mitra | 92 km | Sisir Kumar Mitra (1890-1963) |
| Möbius | 50 km | August Möbius (1790-1868) |
| Mohorovičić | 51 km | Andrija Mohorovičić (1857-1936) |
| Moigno | 36 km | François Napoléon Marie Moigno (1804-1884) |
| Moiseev | 59 km | Nikolai Dmitrievich Moiseev |
| Moissan | 21 km | Henri Moissan (1902-1955) |
| Moltke | 6 km | Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (1800-1891) |
| Monge | 36 km | Gaspard Monge (1746-1818) |
| Monira | 2 km | (Arabic female name) |
| Montanari | 76 km | Geminiano Montanari (1633-1687) |
| Montgolfier | 88 km | Montgolfier brothers (Jacques E.: 1745-1799, Joseph M.: 1740-1810 |
| Moore | 54 km | Joseph Haines Moore (1878-1949) |
| Moretus | 111 km | Théodore Moretus (1602-1667) |
| Morley | 14 km | Edward Williams Morley (1838-1923) |
| Morozov | 42 km | Nikolaj Aleksandrovich Morozov (1854-1945) |
| Morse | 77 km | Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) |
| Moseley | 90 km | Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887-1915 |
| Mösting | 24 km | Johan Sigismund von Mösting (1759-1843) |
| Mouchez | 81 km | Amédée Ernest Barthélemy Mouchez (1821-1892) |
| Moulton | 49 km | Forest Ray Moulton (1872-1952) |
| Müller | 22 km | Karl Müller (1866-1942) |
| Murakami | 45 km | Harutaro Murakami (1872-1947) |
| Murchison | 57 km | Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) |
| Mutus | 77 km | Vincente Mut (Muth) (unknown-1673) |
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| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| Nagaoka | 46 km | Hantaro Nagaoka (1865-1940) |
| Nansen | 104 km | Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) |
| Naonobu | 34 km | Naonobu Ajima (circa 1732-1798) |
| Nasireddin | 52 km | Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201-1274) |
| Nasmyth | 76 km | James Nasmyth (1808-1890) |
| Nassau | 76 km | Jason John Nassau (1893-1965) |
| Natasha | 12 km | (Russian female name) |
| Naumann | 9 km | Karl Friedrich Naumann (1797-1873) |
| Neander | 50 km | Michael Neander (1529-1581) |
| Nearch | 75 km | Nearchus (unknown: flourished 312 B.C.) |
| Necho | 30 km | Necho (610-593 B.C.) |
| Neison | 53 km | Edmund Neville Neison (1849-1940) |
| Neper | 137 km | John Napier (1550-1617) |
| Nernst | 116 km | Walther Hermann Nernst (1864-1941) |
| Neujmin | 101 km | Grigorij N. Neujmin (1885-1946) |
| Neumayer | 76 km | Georg von Neumayer (1826-1909) |
| Newcomb | 41 km | Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) |
| Newton | 78 km | Isaac Newton (1643-1727) |
| Nicholson | 38 km | Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891-1963) |
| Nicolai | 42 km | Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai (1793-1846) |
| Nicollet | 15 km | Jean Nicholas Nicollet (1788-1843) |
| Nielsen | 9 km | Axel V. Nielsen (1902-1970) |
| Harald Herborg Nielsen (1903-1973) | ||
| Niepce | 57 km | Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) |
| Nijland | 35 km | Albertus Antonie Nijland (1868-1936) |
| Nikolayev | 41 km | Andriyan G. Nikolayev (1929-2004) |
| Nishina | 65 km | Yoshio Nishina (1890-1951) |
| Nobel | 48 km | Alfred B. Nobel (1833-1896) |
| Nobile | 73 km | Umberto Nobile (1885-1978) |
| Nobili | 42 km | Leopoldo Nobili (1784-1835) |
| Nöggerath | 30 km | Johann Jakob Nöggerath (1788-1877) |
| Nonius | 69 km | Pedro Nuñez Salaciense (Petrus Nonius) (1502-1578) |
| Norman | 10 km | Robert Norman (unknown: flourished circa 1590) |
| Nöther | 67 km | Emmy Noether (1882-1935) |
| Numerov | 113 km | Boris Vasil'evich Numerov (1891-1941) |
| Nunn | 19 km | Joseph Nunn (1905-1968) |
| Nušl | 61 km | Frantisek Nušl (1867-1925) |
