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Name
  
Jean Meeus


Role
  
Astronomer

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Education
  
Catholic University of Leuven

Books
  
Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Astronomical formulae for calcul, Astronomical Algorithms, More mathematical astronom, Mathematical Astronomy Morsels IV

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Jean Meeus (born 12 December 1928) is a Belgian astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics. The asteroid 2213 Meeus was named after him by the International Astronomical Union in 1981 for his contributions to the field.

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Jean 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 at Brussels Airport.

His area of interest is spherical and mathematical astronomy.

In 1986 he won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Publications

  • Tables of Moon and Sun (Kessel-Lo: Kesselberg Sterrenwacht, 1962)
  • Syzygies Tables (Kessel-Lo: Kesselberg Sterrenwacht, 1963)
  • co-author (with C.C. Grosjean & W. Vanderleen) of Canon of Solar Eclipses (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1966)
  • Astronomical Formulae for Calculators (1979), 1st ed, ISBN 0-943396-22-0
  • Astronomical Formulae for Calculators (1988), 4th ed Enlarged and revised, Willmann-Bell Inc, ISBN 0-943396-22-0
  • Astronomical Formulas for Microcalculators (1988) (Russian Edition, Moscow, "Mir", 1988)
  • co-author (with H. Mucke) of Canon of Lunar Eclipses (1979)
  • co-author (with H. Mucke) of Canon of Solar Eclipses (1983)
  • Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets (1983) ISBN 0-943396-02-6
  • Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets (1995), 2nd ed, ISBN 0-943396-45-X
  • Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets (2016), 3rd ed
  • Elements of Solar Eclipses 1951-2200 (1989) ISBN 0-943396-21-2
  • Transits (1989)
  • Astronomical Algorithms (1991), 1st ed, ISBN 0-943396-35-2
  • Astronomical Algorithms (1998), 2nd ed, ISBN 0-943396-61-1
  • Mathematical Astronomy Morsels (1997) ISBN 0-943396-51-4
  • More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels (2002) ISBN 0-943396-74-3
  • Mathematical Astronomy Morsels III (2004) ISBN 0-943396-81-6
  • Mathematical Astronomy Morsels IV (2007) ISBN 978-0-943396-87-3
  • Mathematical Astronomy Morsels V (2009) ISBN 978-0-943396-92-7
  • co-author (with F. Espenak) of Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000 (2006), NASA Technical paper 2006-214141 2006 [1]
  • co-author (with F. Espenak) of Five Millennium Canon of Lunar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000 (2009), NASA Technical paper 2009-214172 2009 [2]

    • References

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