Elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2006.[5] Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020 [6] Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021 [7] The outer main-belt asteroid 10020 Bagenal, discovered by astronomer Schelte J. Bus at Palomar Observatory in 1979, was named in her honor.[8] The official naming citation was published on 13 April 2017 (M.P.C. 103974).[9]