You can see an account of how these features were named and whom they were called after.
Click on the name to go to the biography
| CRATERS ON MERCURY | |
| Boethius Wren | |
CRATERS ON VENUS | |
Agnesi Germain | |
CRATERS ON MARS | |
Airy Arago Bjerknes (Vilhelm) Bouguer Copernicus Da Vinci Darwin (George) Halley Heaviside Helmholtz Herschel (John) Hipparchus Hooke | Huygens Jeans Kepler Lambert Luzin Playfair Ptolemaeus Rayleigh Richardson Stokes Tycho Brahe von Karman |
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http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Societies/PlanetaryFeatures.html