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There are probably a few thousand astronomical objects named after people. These include the names of a few thousand asteroids and hundreds of comets. Also, many topological features on solar system bodies have been named after people, including many hundreds of craters on the Moon, Mars and other planets and satellites. In addition to craters there are also various other topological features such as mountains, valleys, ridges on the Moon and other bodies which are also named after people. Finally, a very few stars are named after people, such as Barnard's star. Thus this list is somewhat incomplete.

The list does not include astronomical objects named after mythological or fictional characters.

For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.

For a list of eponyms sorted by names see List of eponyms.

• Comets and asteroids (see links below)
• Barnard's Star – Edward Emerson Barnard
• Kepler's Star – Johannes Kepler
• Maxwell Montes – James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell ( June 13, 1831 November 5, 1879) was a Scottish physicist, born in Edinburgh. Maxwell developed a set of equations expressing the basic laws of electricity and magnetism as well as the Maxwell distribution in the kinetic theory of gas (mountain on VenusVenus is the second planet from the Sun, named after the Roman goddess Venus. It is a terrestrial planet, very similar in size and bulk composition to Earth; it is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet" as a result of this similarity. Although all plane)

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• List of craters on MercuryThis is a list of named craters on Mercury . All craters on Mercury are named after famous writers and artists. See also: List of geological features on Mercury A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z External Link Craters Mercury Mercury.
• List of craters on the MoonThis is a list of the craters on the Moon. Where a crater formation has satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages. 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 See also List of features on the Moon List of maria on
• List of features on the MoonThe Moon's surface is covered in many interesting geologic features. In addition to mountains, valleys, and craters, the following surface features have received names in the Lunar nomenclature. Many of these features are named after a nearby crater or mo
• List of craters on MarsThere are hundreds of thousands of craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. Here is a list of named Martian craters. Martian craters are named after famous scientists and science fiction authors, or after towns on Earth. A B C D E F G H I J K L

• List of features on Phobos and DeimosThis is a list of geological features on Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars. Phobos Craters Phobosian craters are named after important astronomers. Ridges The only named ridge on Phobos is Kepler Dorsum, which is named after Johannes Kepler ( 1571- 163
• List of geological features on Hyperion
• Various regio on Ganymede [1] and Iapetus [2]

• List of geological features on 433 Eros
• List of geological features on 951 Gaspra
• List of geological features on 243 Ida and Dactyl

• List of asteroids
• List of asteroids named after important people (also very incomplete)
• List of periodic comets
• List of non-periodic comets

• Lists of people