The Moon, named after Jewish

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

FEATURES · 1

NAME	TYPE	SIZE	WHY THAT NAME
Messala	crater	122.4 km	(Ma-Sa-Allah); Jewish astronomer (unkn- c. 815).

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