Edward Charles Pickering

Edward Charles Pickering (July 19 1846 – February 3 1919) was an American astronomer and physicist, brother of William Henry Pickering.

Honors

Awards

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• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1886 and 1901)
• Henry Draper Medal (1888)
• Bruce Medal (1908)

Named after him

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• Pickering crater on the Moon
• Crater on Mars
• Asteroid 784 Pickeringia

(all jointly named after him and his brother William Henry Pickering)

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