Named After Him
- Asteroid 1746 Brouwer
- The crater Brouwer on the Moon (jointly with mathematician Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer)
- Dirk Brouwer Award of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society
- Dirk Brouwer Award of the American Astronautical Society
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