Other Recognition
- 1969 Personal letter of commendation from President Nixon for finding landed position of Surveyor 3, enabling the Apollo 12 astronauts to land nearby and retrieve parts for laboratory examination.
- 1982 Walter Goodacre Medal and Prize from British Atronomical Association for contributions to knowledge of the Moon.
- 2000 Asteroid 7948 (1992HY) named "Whitaker" for same reason.
- 2008 Asked by Director of Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence to write a 4,500 word illustrated article on the history of Moon observation and mapping from Leonardo da Vinci to 1800, together with an update on his 1978 paper on dating Galileo's Moon drawings, to accompany those original drawings from 1609! All of this for a major exhibition planned for March - September 2009 in the Palazzo Strozzi there.
Sources of above information:-
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona (Curriculum Vitae and Publications list for E. A. Whitaker)
- Who's Who in America" 2010 Edition
- The biography himself
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