Awards and Honors
Ostro received the Gerard P. Kuiper Prize from the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in 2003.
He was awarded NASA Medals for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 1991 and 2004, in both cases for his leadership of asteroid radar astronomers as well as his scientific accomplishments.
The asteroid 3169 Ostro is named in his honor.
In 2008, Ostro was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, awarded for acknowledged eminence in the Earth and Space sciences.
In 2010, Ostro was posthumously awarded NASA Distinguished Service Medal.
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