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==Awards== * Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (elected 1909)<ref>{{cite web |title=Member Directory |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/vesto-melvin-slipher |website=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=October 7, 2022}}</ref> * [[Lalande Prize]] (1919)<ref name="nytimes1969"/> * [[French Academy of Sciences|Gold Medal of the Paris Academy of Sciences]] (1919)<ref name="nytimes1969"/> * Member of the United States [[National Academy of Sciences]] (1921)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vesto M. Slipher |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20001710.html |access-date=2023-09-13 |website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref> * Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] (1921)<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Vesto+M.+Slipher&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-09-13 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> * [[Henry Draper Medal]] of the National Academy of Sciences (1932)<ref name="nytimes1969"/><ref name=Draper>{{cite web|title=Henry Draper Medal |url=http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/awards/henry-draper-medal.html |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=24 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126003930/http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/awards/henry-draper-medal.html |archive-date=January 26, 2013 }}</ref> * [[Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society]] (1932)<ref name="nytimes1969"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Winners of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society|url=http://www.ras.org.uk/awards-and-grants/awards/268|publisher=Royal Astronomical Society|access-date=24 February 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525064844/http://www.ras.org.uk/awards-and-grants/awards/268|archive-date=25 May 2011}}</ref> * [[Bruce Medal]] (1935)<ref>{{cite web|title=Past Winners of the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal|url=http://astrosociety.org/membership/awards/pastbruce.html|publisher=Astronomical Society of the Pacific|access-date=24 February 2011}}</ref> * The crater [[Slipher (lunar crater)|Slipher]] on the [[Moon]] is named after Earl and Vesto Slipher, as is the crater [[Slipher (Martian crater)|Slipher]] on Mars and the [[asteroid]] [[1766 Slipher]], discovered September 7, 1962, by the [[Indiana Asteroid Program]].
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