List of things named after George Airy

This is a list of things named after George Biddell Airy, a 19th-century mathematician and astronomer.

Mathematics and related physics concepts

Airy–Heiskanen model, see "Airy hypothesis".
Airy, a crater on Mars.^[2]
- Airy-0, another smaller crater, whose location within Airy, defines the prime meridian of that planet.^[3]
Airy (lunar crater) named in his honour.^[4]
Airy ellipsoid
Airy hypothesis
Airy Mean Time
Airy projection^[5]
Airy Transit Circle^[6]^[7]

^ Holthuijsen, Leo H. (2007). Waves in oceanic and coastal waters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-521-86028-4.
^ "Mars Nomenclature: Crater, craters". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS: Astrogeology Research Program. Retrieved 16 August 2007.
^ Morton, Oliver (2002). Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World. New York: Picador USA. pp. 22–23. ISBN 0-312-24551-3.
^ Cocks, E. E. & Cocks, J. C. (1995). Who's Who on the Moon: A Biographical Dictionary of Lunar Nomenclature. Tudor Publishers. ISBN 0-936389-27-3.
^ Weisstein, Eric W. "Airy Projection." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AiryProjection.html
^ The Airy Transit Circle
^ The Airy Transit Circle, By Emily Winterburn, BBC. Last updated 2011-02-17