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Hecataeus (lunar crater)
Hecataeus is a large impact crater on the Moon's eastern limb, IAU feature ID 2405, centered at -22.06°, 79.68°E, diameter 133.67 km (167 km in one study), north of Humboldt crater and older than it.
Hertzsprung (crater)
Hertzsprung is a large, ancient impact basin on the far side of the Moon, about 570 km across, named for Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung in 1970.
Hess (lunar crater)
Hess is a 90.44-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's far side at 54.47°S, 174.19°E, named by the IAU in 1970 for physicist Victor Franz Hess and geologist Harry Hammond Hess.
Hilbert (lunar crater)
Hilbert is a 173.24-km Nectarian-age impact crater on the lunar far side at 17.87S, 108.32E, named for German mathematician David Hilbert and IAU-approved in 1970, with satellite feature Hilbert Y.
Hildegard (lunar crater)
Hildegard, a 122-km-diameter lunar impact crater on the far side at 51.68°S, 127.74°E, IAU-named in 2016 for the German mystic and polymath Hildegard von Bingen.
Hirayama (lunar crater)
Hirayama is an IAU-approved lunar impact crater (Gazetteer Feature ID 2520), 145.21 km in diameter, centered at -6.01° latitude, about 93.6° E longitude, with the approved satellite crater name Hirayama C.
Hopmann (lunar crater)
Hopmann is an 87.84-km IAU-approved impact crater on the Moon's far side at 51.01°S, 159.23°E, attached to northern Poincaré; Nectarian age, mare-flooded floor, terraced walls, swirl-magnetic anomaly.
Houzeau (lunar crater)
Houzeau is a 76.84-km-diameter lunar impact crater at 17.25°S, 123.89°W, mostly within Orientale's outer ejecta, near the Crisium antipode, named for Belgian astronomer Jean-Charles Houzeau.
Hubble (lunar crater)
Hubble is an 81.84 km wide impact crater on the Moon centered at 22.29°N, 86.91°E, officially approved by the IAU in 1964 and named for American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889–1953).
Humboldt (crater)
Humboldt is a large floor-fractured impact crater on the Moon's eastern limb, about 207 km across, whose lava-flooded floor shows volcanic activity spanning over a billion years.
Ibn Firnas (lunar crater)
Ibn Firnas (lunar crater), far-side Moon impact crater, IAU-approved 1976, honoring Abbas ibn Firnas (عباس بن فرناس); 88.29 km diameter, centered at 6.83°N, 122.30°E, with satellites E, L, Y.
Icarus (lunar crater)
Icarus, lunar far-side impact crater, 93.73 km diameter, center -5.58°, -173.00°; complex crater with tall central peak, named with Daedalus after the Greek myth, approved by IAU 1961-1973.
Inghirami (lunar crater)
Inghirami is an impact crater on the Moon, 94.60 km wide, named for Italian astronomer Giovanni Inghirami (1779–1851), with thirteen satellite craters.
Ioffe (lunar crater)
Ioffe is a lunar impact crater on the Moon's far side, about 84 km across and south of Hertzsprung, named for Soviet physicist Abram Joffe.
Isaev (lunar crater)
Isaev is a far-side lunar impact crater at 17.57S, 147.49E, IAU-named 1976 for Soviet rocket designer Alexei Mikhailovich Isaev (1908-1971); about 94 km across with a dark mare-flooded floor.
Jackson (lunar crater)
Jackson is a 71.38 km bright-rayed Copernican complex impact crater on the Moon's farside at 22.05°N, 163.32°W, east of Mare Moscoviense, on the Dirichlet-Jackson basin rim, with a central peak, terraced walls, impact melt deposits, and an estimated ~109 Ma age.
Jeans (lunar crater)
Jeans is an 81.13-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's far side at 55.58°S, 91.51°E, named in 1964 for British mathematical physicist Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1877-1946).
Joliot (lunar crater)
Joliot is a 172.79 km-wide impact crater on the lunar far side at 25.79°N, 93.39°E, named for the Joliot-Curie physicists; an old, degraded crater with a central peak, low albedo, and high iron content.
Karpinskiy (lunar crater)
Karpinskiy is a 91.4-km floor-fractured lunar crater at 72.61°N, 166.80°E on the northern farside, named 1970 for Soviet geologist Alexander Karpinskiy; its fractured floor links to nearby magmatic intrusions.
Keeler (lunar crater)
Keeler is a 158 km complex impact crater on the lunar farside at 9.78°S, 161.78°E, named for astronomer James Edward Keeler (IAU 1970), with an impact-melt floor and satellite craters Keeler L, S, U, V.
Kekulé (lunar crater)
Kekulé is an IAU-adopted lunar impact crater, 94.22 km wide, centered at 16.31°, −138.47° on the Moon's far side, with the satellite feature Kekulé K listed in USGS nomenclature.
Kibal'chich (lunar crater)
Kibal'chich is an impact crater located on the far side of the Moon; it is 91.67 kilometers wide and was named by the IAU in 1970 after Nikolaj Ivanovich Kibal'chich.
King (crater)
King is a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon, about 76 km wide and geologically young, making it one of the Moon's best-preserved complex craters.
Koch (lunar crater)
Koch is a 94.70 km impact crater on the Moon's far side at about 42°S, 150°E, IAU-approved in 1970 and named for German physician and Nobel laureate Robert Koch (1843–1910).
Kolhörster (lunar crater)
Kolhörster is a 78.78 km-wide impact crater on the lunar far side at 10.79°S, 115.01°W, charted on LAC-71 and named by the IAU in 1970 for German cosmic-ray physicist Werner Kolhörster (1887–1946).
Komarov (lunar crater)
Komarov is an 80.43-km-wide floor-fractured impact crater on the lunar far side at 24.59N, 152.25E, on the southeastern edge of Mare Moscoviense, named for cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, IAU-approved 1970.
Kondratyuk (lunar crater)
Kondratyuk is a 97.97 km impact crater on the Moon's far side at 15.33°S, 115.80°E, named by the IAU in 1970 for Soviet rocketry pioneer Yury Kondratyuk (born Aleksandr Shargei), with satellite craters A and Q.
Korolev (lunar crater)
Korolev is a 423.41 km peak-ring impact basin on the far side of the Moon, named for Soviet rocketry scientist Sergey Korolev (1906-1966), with satellite craters Korolev C, E, W, Y, Z.
Kovalevskaya (lunar crater)
Kovalevskaya is a 113.71-km-diameter complex impact crater on the Moon's western farside at 30.86°N, 129.44°W, IAU-named in 1970 for Russian mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya, with terraced walls, twin central peaks, and anorthosite-rich uplift.
Kurchatov (lunar crater)
Kurchatov is a 110.96 km IAU-named impact crater on the Moon's far side at 38.30°N, 141.74°E, approved in 1961 for Soviet nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov, with satellite craters T, W, X, Z and the related Catena Kurchatov chain.