In honor of his "pioneering work into the investigation of the dynamics of orbits close to small, irregularly shaped minor planets," Asteroid (8887) 1994LK1 was renamed (8887) Scheeres in 1999.
[2] In honor of his "pioneering work into the investigation of the dynamics of orbits close to small, irregularly shaped minor planets," Asteroid (8887) 1994LK1 was renamed (8887) Scheeres in 1999.
[3] He then returned to the University of Michigan as an assistant professor of aerospace engineering, where he helped collect radar images of a metallic, dog bone-shaped asteroid in 2000.
[8] As the A. Richard Seebass Endowed Chair in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Scheeres was appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor[9] and elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
[10] In 2017, Scheeres was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his “pioneering work on the motion of bodies in strongly perturbed environments, such as near asteroids and comets.