The Moon, named after Iraq

4 named features. The International Astronomical Union records why each name was chosen, and those reasons are printed below exactly as they were approved.

FEATURES · 4

NAME	TYPE	SIZE	WHY THAT NAME
Albategnius	crater	130.8 km	Muhammed Ben Geber Al-Battānī; Arab astronomer, mathematician (c. 858-929).
Al-Khwarizmi	crater	56.3 km	Abū Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Mūsā; Iraqi mathematician (unkn-after 847).
Thebit	crater	54.6 km	Al-Sābi' al-Harrani Thābit Ibn Qurra; Iraqi astronomer (836-901).
Alhazen	crater	34.7 km	Abū Ali Al-Hasan Ibn Al Haitham; Iraqi mathematician (987-1038).

Names and their origins come from the IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (USGS Astrogeology), retrieved 2026-08-14.
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DATA: IAU / USGS Astrogeology · NASA LRO LOLA