List of people with craters on Mars named after them
The following is a list of people whose names were given to craters of Mars. The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature maintained by the International Astronomical Union includes the person the crater is named for.[1]
A
- Walter Sydney Adams[2]
- Louis Agassiz[3]
- George Biddell Airy[4] - two features: Airy and Airy-0 craters
- Eugène Michel Antoniadi[5]
- François Arago[6]
- A.D. Arkhangelsky
- Svante Arrhenius[7]
- Isaac Asimov[8]
B
- Georgy Babakin[9]
- H.G. van de Sande Bakhuyzen (Bakhuysen)[7]
- Fernand Baldet[7]
- Nikolai P. Barabashov[7]
- Edward Emerson Barnard[10]
- Raymond Miilner Batson
- H. Becquerel[7]
- Wilhelm Beer[7]
- P. Bernard[9]
- Francesco Bianchini[7]
- Vilhelm Bjerknes[7]
- Otto Boeddicker[7]
- George Phillips Bond[11]
- Pierre Bouguer[12]
- Tycho Brahe
- John A. Brashear[13]
- P. Briault[7]
- Andrey Aleksandrovich Bunge
- Nikolai Bunge
- Edgar Rice Burroughs[14]
- Charles E. Burton[7]
C
- John W. Campbell[14]
- William Wallace Campbell[7]
- Henri Chamichel
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini[7]
- Vincenzo Cerulli[7]
- Carl Charlier[7]
- Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin[7]
- Alvan Clark[7]
- William Coblentz[7]
- Christopher Columbus[7]
- Josep Comas Solá[7]
- Nicolaus Copernicus[7]
- Andrew Crommelin
- Luis Cruls[7]
- Pierre Curie[7]
D
- Reginald A. Daly[7]
- James Dwight Dana[7]
- G. Edward Danielson[8]
- Charles Darwin[7]
- George Darwin[7]
- Merton Davies
- William Rutter Dawes
- Semen Ivanovich Dejnev[9]
- William Frederick Denning
- Andrew E. Douglass
- Audouin Dollfus
E
- Leif Ericson - crater named as Ejriksson
- Eudoxus of Cnidus
F
G
- Galileo Galilei
- Joseph Gledhill
- Johann Gottfried Galle
- Grove K. Gilbert
- Kasimir Graff
- Ronald Greeley, geologist
- Nathaniel E. Green
- Konstantin Gringauz
H
- George Hadley
- J.B.S. Haldane
- George Ellery Hale
- Asaph Hall
- Edmond Halley
- Oliver Heaviside
- Robert A. Heinlein[18]
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Paul Henry and Prosper Henry
- William Herschel
- Caroline Herschel
- George William Hill
- Hipparchus[19]
- Edward Singleton Holden
- Arthur Holmes[20]
- Robert Hooke
- Norman H. Horowitz
- Sir William Huggins
- Donald M. Hunten
- William Hussey
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Christiaan Huygens
I
J
K
- Theodore von Kármán
- Frederik Kaiser[22]
- Johannes Kepler
- Edward Knobel
- M.A. Koval'sky[9]
- Gerard Peter Kuiper[23]
- George K. Kunowsky
L
- Johann Heinrich Lambert[24]
- Johann von Lamont[25]
- Hans E. Lau
- William Lassell
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
- Li Fan
- Liu Xin (Liu Hsin)
- Joseph Norman Lockyer
- Oswald Lohse
- Mikhail Lomonosov — Lomonosov (Martian crater)
- N. N. Luzin
- Percival Lowell
- Charles Lyell
M
- Johann Heinrich Mädler
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Maggini
- Giacomo Filippo (Jacques Philippe) Maraldi
- Albert Marth
- John E. Martin, Jr.
- Dmitry Yakovlevich Martynov
- Edwin P. Martz
- Harold Masursky
- Walter Maunder
- James Clerk Maxwell
- John E. Mellish
- Gregor Mendel
- Milutin Milanković
- Peter Millman
- Ormsby M. Mitchel
- Percy B. Molesworth
- Hermann Joseph Muller
- Karl Müller
- Thomas A. Mutch[9]
N
O
- Vance Oyama
P
- Louis Pasteur
- Yevgeny Perepyolkin
- Denis Pétau[28]
- Edison Pettit
- Phocas
- John Phillips (geologist)
- T. E. R. Phillips, or Theodore E. Phillips
- Edward Charles Pickering
- William Henry Pickering
- John Playfair
- James B. Pollack
- Russell W. Porter
- John Henry Poynting
- Richard A. Proctor
- Ptolemy
R
- Wilhelm F. Rabe
- Francesco Redi
- Osborne Reynolds
- Giovanni Battista Riccioli[28]
- George Willis Ritchey
- Gene Roddenberry
- David John Roddy
- Frank E. Ross
- Carl-Gustav Rossby
- Henry Norris Russell
- Ernest Rutherford
S
- Carl Sagan
- Giovanni Schiaparelli[29]
- Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt[30]
- Otto Y. Schmidt[30]
- Johann Hieronymus Schröter
- Angelo Secchi
- Robert Sharp
- William M. Sinton
- Earl Slipher[31]
- Vesto Slipher
- Sir James South
- Lazzaro Spallanzani[32]
- Nicholas Steno
- George Johnstone Stoney[33]
T
- Léon Teisserenc de Bort
- Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov
- Mikhail Tikhonravov[9]
- Alexander du Toit[20]
- Alexey Tolstoy
- Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
V
W
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- James Watt
- Alfred Wegener
- Stanley Weinbaum[14]
- H. G. Wells[14]
- Orson Welles
- Arthur S. Williams[34]
- Carl Wilhelm Wirtz[35]
- William Hammond Wright
See also
Notes
- ^ "Martian craters". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. International Astrophysical Union. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ "Honorary Member: Walter Sydney Adams". Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
- ^ Schmadel 2012, p. 176.
- ^ "George Biddell Airy". University of New Brunswick Libraries. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
- ^ McKim, R. J. (August 1993). "The life and times of E.M. Antoniadi, 1870-1944. Part I: an astronomer in the making". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 103 (4): 164−170. Bibcode:1993JBAA..103..164M. See the introduction.
- ^ Schmadel 2012, p. 139.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa de Vaucouleurs, G.; et al. (September 1975). "The new Martian nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union". Icarus. 26: 85−98. Bibcode:1975Icar...26...85D. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(75)90146-3.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ a b Edgett, Ken (May 27, 2009). "The Martian Craters Asimov and Danielson". The Planetary Society. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
- ^ a b c d e f Swings, Jean-Pierre, ed. (2012), International Astronomical Union Transactions, vol. 19, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 347, ISBN 9400947429
- ^ "Edward Emerson Barnard". The Bruce Medalists. Sonoma State University Department of Physics & Astronomy. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
- ^ Schmadel 2012, p. 115.
- ^ Berger & Ariel 2006, p. 30.
- ^ Schmadel 2012, p. 79.
- ^ a b c d Sagan, Carl (1980), Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science, Ballantine Books, p. 171, ISBN 0345336895
- ^ Rabkin, Eric S. (2005). Mars: A Tour of the Human Imagination. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 91. ISBN 0275987191.
- ^ Handler, Kelsey (2012). "Pierre-Gilles-Antoine-Honoré Flaugergues: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center". The University of Texas in Austin. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ Wood, Charles (December 14, 2010). "Moonman on Mars". Lunar Picture of the Day. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ Heinlein, Robert A. (1966), The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Macmillan, p. 7, ISBN 0312863551
- ^ May 2017, p. 148.
- ^ a b Summerhayes, C. P. (2015), Earth's Climate Evolution, John Wiley & Sons, p. 56, ISBN 1118897382
- ^ Hughes, Stefan (2012), Catchers of the Light: The Forgotten Lives of the Men and Women Who First Photographed the Heavens, ArtDeCiel Publishing, p. 274, ISBN 162050961X.
- ^ Bolt, Hockey & Palmeri 2007, p. 608.
- ^ a b Müller, E. A.; Jappel, A., eds. (2012), "Proceedings of the Sixteenth General Assembly Grenoble", International Astronomical Union Transactions, vol. 16, no. 2, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 325, ISBN 9401012571
- ^ Schmadel 2012, p. 46.
- ^ "Stargazing and stargazers at LMU". Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ Moscow to honor Norwegian polar explorer and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen, Russkiy MIR Foundation, October 27, 2011, retrieved 2017-11-18.
- ^ Tenn, Joe S. (November 11, 2015), "Simon Newcomb", The Bruce Medalists, retrieved 2017-11-18.
- ^ a b c May 2017, p. 150.
- ^ Alexander 2014, p. 130.
- ^ a b Hodge, Paul (2001), Higher Than Everest: An Adventurer's Guide to the Solar System, Cambridge University Press, p. 58, ISBN 0521651336
- ^ Schmadel 2012, p. 141.
- ^ "Layers in Spallanzani Crater", High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, retrieved 2017-11-07.
- ^ Ryder, Adrian J. (2012), An Irishman of Note George Johnstone Stoney, Lulu.com, p. 76, ISBN 1291480129
- ^ "Arthur S. Williams, British astronomer". Science Photo Library. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
- ^ "PIA08746: Dunes of Wirtz". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. September 10, 2006. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
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