Awards
- Lalande Prize (1919)
- Gold Medal of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1919)
- Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1932)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1932)
- Bruce Medal (1935)
- The crater Slipher on the Moon is named after Earl and Vesto Slipher, as is the crater Slipher on Mars and the asteroid 1766 Slipher, discovered September 7, 1962, by the Indiana Asteroid Program.
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