What is "cockcroft"

The rim of this crater is worn and eroded from subsequent impacts. The satellite crater Cockroft N is intruding into the south-southwestern rim. There are small craters along the rim to the southeast, east, and north-northwest, and a small crater lies along the eastern inner wall. The interior floor is uneven in places, particularly in the southern half, and contains multiple small and tiny craterlets.

Cockcroft or Cockroft is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Cockcroft:

• Barry Cockcroft (1933–2001), British television documentary director
• Barry Cockcroft (dentist), Chief Dental Officer (CDO) for England
• Bill Cockcroft, former Chief Scout Commissioner of England
• Colin Cockcroft (1918–1987), South African military commander
• D. W. Cockcroft, see Cockcroft-Gault formula
• George Cockcroft (born 1932), U.S. novelist who published under the name "Luke Rhinehart"
• Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (1897–1967), British nuclear physicist
  • The Cockcroft Institute, a UK research centre for accelerator physics named after Sir John D. Cockcroft
  • Cockcroft, a lunar crater named after Sir John D. Cockcroft
• John Hoyle Cockcroft (born 1934), British Conservative politician
• Wilfred Cockcroft (1923–1999), English mathematician

Cockroft:

• Don Cockroft American football player
• Hannah Cockroft (born 1992), British athlete, won Paralympics gold medal
• Joe Cockroft English footballer
• Lana Coc-Kroft New Zealand television personality
• Peter Cockroft British weather forecaster