Memorial Minutes, tributes to the lives and service of deceased members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences written by their colleagues, have been spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty since the year 2000. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has honored these astronomy faculty in the FAS Memorial Minutes:
- Thaddeus, Patrick (1932-2017)
- Charles Whitney (1929-2017)
- William Klemperer (1927-2017)
- Alex Dalgarno (1928-2015)
- John Peter Huchra (1948-2010)
- Cameron, Alastair Graham Walter (1925-2005)
- Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906-2004)