Jean Meeus
Jean Meeus (born 12 December 1928) is a Belgian meteorologist and astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics, spherical astronomy, and mathematical astronomy.[1][2] Meeus studied mathematics at the University of Leuven in Belgium, where he received the Degree of Licentiate in 1953. From then until his retirement in 1993, he was a meteorologist in Brussels Airport.
Jean Meeus
- Born
- 1928
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Occupation
- astronomer · mathematician · writer · astrophysicist
- Fields
- astronomy
- Education
- Old University of Leuven
- Honours
- Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Languages
- French
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Jean Meeus (born 12 December 1928) is a Belgian meteorologist and astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics, spherical astronomy, and mathematical astronomy.[1][2] Meeus studied mathematics at the University of Leuven in Belgium, where he received the Degree of Licentiate in 1953. From then until his retirement in 1993, he was a meteorologist in Brussels Airport.
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Jean Meeus (born 1928) is an astronomer, astrophysicist and mathematician, among other activities, of Belgian nationality.
The astronomer was educated at Old University of Leuven. Activity centred on astronomy. Languages used include French.
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Jean Meeus is recorded as astronomer, mathematician, writer and astrophysicist.
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1928
Jean Meeus born.
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• Tables of Moon and Sun (Kessel-Lo: Kesselberg Sterrenwacht, 1962) • Syzygies Tables (Kessel-Lo: Kesselberg Sterrenwacht, 1963) • co-author (with Carl C. Grosjean & Willy Vanderleen) of Canon of Solar Eclipses (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1966) • co-author (with Frederick Pilcher) of Tables of Minor Planets (1973) • Astronomical Formulae for Calculators (1979) [1st ed.] • Astronomical Formulæ for Calculators (1982), 2nd ed. Enlarged and revised, Willmann-Bell Inc, • Astronomical Formulæ for Calculators (1985), 3rd ed. Enlarged and revised, Willmann-Bell Inc, • Astronomical Formulæ for Calculators (1988), 4th ed. Enlarged and revised, Willmann-Bell Inc, • Astronomical Formulas for Microcalculators (1988) (Russian Edition, Moscow, "Mir", 1988) • co-author (with Hermann Mucke) of Canon of Lunar Eclipses: -2000 to +2526 (Astronomisches Büro, 1979) 1979cle..book.....M • co-author (with Hermann Mucke) of Canon of Solar Eclipses -2003 to +2526 (Astronomisches Büro, 1983) • Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets (1983) • Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets (1995), 2nd ed., • Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets (2016), 3rd ed., • Elements of Solar Eclipses 1951-2200 (1989) • Transits (1989) • Astronomical Algorithms (1991), 1st ed., • Astronomical Algorithms (1998), 2nd ed., • Mathematical Astronomy Morsels (1997) • More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels (2002) • Mathematical Astronomy Morsels III (2004) • Mathematical Astronomy Morsels IV (2007) • Mathematical Astronomy Morsels V (2009) • co-author (with Fred Espenak) of Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000 (October 2006), NASA Technical paper 2006-214141 2006[4] • co-author (with Fred Espenak) of Five Millennium Canon of Lunar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000 (January 2009), NASA Technical paper 2009-214172 2009[5]
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In 1986, he won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.[3] The main belt asteroid 2213 Meeus was named after him by the International Astronomical Union in 1981 for his contributions to the field.
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- 1.International Astronomical Union. (2213) Meeus. Minor Planet Center.
- 2.Meeus, Jean. Mathematical Astronomy Morsels. Willmann-Bell. (Author Biography). 1997. 0-943396-51-4.
- 3.Wolff, S. Jean Meeus received the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Mercury. Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 15. 5. 142–3. June 1986.
- 4.Espenak, Fred. Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000. Eclipse Web Site. NASA. October 2006.
- 5.Espenak, Fred. Five Millennium Canon of Lunar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000. Eclipse Web Site. NASA. January 2009.
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