Honours
Awards
- Merlin Medal and Gift of the British Astronomical Association (1965)
- Walter Goodacre Medal of the British Astronomical Association (1979)
- George Van Biesbroeck Prize of the American Astronomical Society (1989)
- Brouwer Award of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society (1995)
- Royal Astronomical Society Award for Service to Astronomy and Geophysics (2006)
- Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Named after him
- Asteroid 1877 Marsden
- Marsden Group of sun-grazing comets
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