Honors
Named after him
- Flammarion (lunar crater).
- Flammarion (crater on Mars).
- Asteroids: 1021 Flammario is named in his honour, and it is believed that 107 Camilla derives from Flammarion's first name. In addition, 154 Bertha commemorates his sister, Berthe Martin-Flammarion; 654 Zelinda his niece; and 87 Sylvia possibly his first wife, Sylvie Petiaux-Hugo Flammarion. 141 Lumen is named after Flammarion's book Lumen : Récits de l'infini; 286 Iclea for the heroine of his novel Uranie; and 605 Juvisia after Juvisy-sur-Orge, France, where his observatory was located
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