Editing Eugene Merle Shoemaker (section)

==Awards and tributes==
Shoemaker received a large number of awards for his professional work. According to the obituary published by the [[USGS Astrogeology Science Center]], these included:<ref name="USGS">{{cite web|url=https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/gene-shoemaker|last=Chapman|first=Mary G|title=Gene Shoemaker – Founder of Astrogeology|publisher=USGS Astrogeology Science Center|access-date=April 21, 2017|archive-date=September 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904175222/https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/rpif/Gene-Shoemaker|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Doctorate of Science, Arizona State College, Flagstaff, 1965.
* [[John Price Wetherill Medal]] of the Franklin Institute, co-recipient with E.C.T. Chao, 1965.
* [[Arthur S. Flemming Award]], 1966.
* Doctorate of Science, Temple University, 1967.
* NASA Medal for Scientific Achievement, 1967.
* U.S. Department of the Interior Honor Award for Meritorious Service, 1973.
* Member, [[U.S. National Academy of Sciences]], 1980.
* U.S. Department of the Interior Distinguished Service Award, 1980.
* Arthur L. Day Medal of the Geological Society of America, 1982.
* G.K. Gilbert Award of the Geological Society of America, 1983.
* [[:de:Rieser Kulturpreis|Rieser Kulturpreis]], co-recipient with E.C.T. Chao and Richard Dehm, 1983.
* Honorary Doctorate of Science, University of Arizona, 1984.
* [[Barringer Medal|Barringer Award]] of the Meteoritical Society, 1984.
* [[Gerard P. Kuiper Prize|Kuiper Prize]] of the American Astronomical Society, Division for Planetary Sciences, 1984.
* Leonard Medal of the Meteoritical Society, 1985.
* Distinguished Alumni Award of the California Institute of Technology, 1986.
* Rittenhouse Medal of the Rittenhouse Astronomical Society, co-recipient with C.S. Shoemaker, 1988.
* [[National Medal of Science]], 1992.
* [[Whipple Award]], American Geophysical Union, 1993.
* Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993.
* AIAA Space Science Award, 1996.
* NASA [[Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal]], 1996.
* [[William Bowie Medal]], American Geophysical Union, 1996.
* Special Award, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1997.
* Shoemaker Award, Texas Section of the American Institute of Professional Geologists, awarded posthumously, 1997.

On July 24, 1997, a memorial for Shoemaker and Jurgen Rahe was presented in the U.S. House of Representatives by California representative George E. Brown Jr. The memorial was published in the ''Congressional Record''. The memorial credited Shoemaker with being either the discoverer or co-discoverer of 820 asteroids and comets during his career.{{efn|Rahe was a German-American astronomer and project leader at NASA who was killed in an auto accident near Washington D. C. on June 18, 1997.}} <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1997-07-24/html/CREC-1997-07-24-pt1-PgE1508-2.htm|title=In Remembrance of Dr. Eugene Shoemaker and Dr. Jurgen Rahe|work=Congressional Record|volume=143|number=106|date=July 24, 1997|access-date=April 23, 2017|archive-date=April 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424085656/https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1997-07-24/html/CREC-1997-07-24-pt1-PgE1508-2.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

A ring-like topographic feature in Western Australia, an [[astrobleme]] previously named the "Teague ring" was renamed "[[Shoemaker Crater]]" in honor of Shoemaker. The [[NEAR Shoemaker|Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous]] space probe was renamed "NEAR Shoemaker" in his honor. It arrived at asteroid [[433 Eros]] in February 2000, and landed on the asteroid after a year of orbital study. He was previously honored with the asteroid [[2074 Shoemaker]], discovered and named by his colleague, [[Eleanor F. Helin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2074+Shoemaker|title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser|first=Alan|last=Chamberlin|website=ssd.jpl.nasa.gov|access-date=31 March 2018|archive-date=April 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426055427/http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2074+Shoemaker|url-status=live}}</ref>

In their 2020 album, ''[[Human. :II: Nature.]]'', Finnish metal band [[Nightwish]] paid tribute to Shoemaker in the song "Shoemaker". Composer [[Tuomas Holopainen]] says he was inspired by his biography, which moved the entire band to tears.