Legacy and Honours
- He was elected president of the Royal Astronomical Society four times.
- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1832)
- The Martian crater Airy is named for him. Within that crater lies another smaller crater called Airy-0 whose location defines the prime meridian of that planet, as does the location of Airy's 1850 telescope for Earth.
- winner of the Lalande Prize for astronomy from the French Academy of Sciences, 1834
- There is also a lunar crater Airy named in his honour.
- Airy wave theory is the linear theory for the propagation of gravity waves on the surface of a fluid.
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