Honors include naming the Hubble Space Telescope after him, Moon Crater Hubble (22.1N, 86.9E, 80 km diameter, in 1964), asteroid (2069) Hubble (discovered March 29, 1955 by an Indiana University team at Brooklyn Observatory, provisionally designated 1955 FT as well as 1953 VN1 on a pre-discovery and 1969 TB1, 1970 WA1 and 1975 TT3 on later independent sightings).

Links

• Edwin Powell Hubble, 1938 Bruce Medalist
• The Scale of the Universe Debate: Hubble Memoir: EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE, Biographical Memoir NAS 41, from an article by N.U. Mayall and NASA Spacelink
• Edwin Hubble, Ph.D., The @stro object for the week of 04/10/2000
• Edwin Hubble, short biographical information, Carnegie Institution of Washington

• Hubble at the 100-inch Hooker Telescope, Mt. Wilson Observatory

• Edwin P. Hubble, 1936. The Realm of the Nebulae. Extended notes of the Mrs. Hespa Ely Silliman Memorial Lecturedelivered at Yale University in the fall of 1935. Oxford University Press, London.