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Belgian meteorologist and amateur astronomer
Jean Meeus (born 12 December 1928) is a Belgian
meteorologist and amateur
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 at
Brussels Airport.
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Awards and honors
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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Publications
- 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,
ISBN
0-943396-01-8
- Astronomical Formulæ for Calculators (1985), 3rd ed. Enlarged and revised, Willmann-Bell Inc,
ISBN
0-943396-09-3
- Astronomical Formulæ 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
Hermann Mucke) of Canon of Lunar Eclipses: -2000 to +2526 (Astronomisches Büro, 1979)
Bibcode:
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)
ISBN
0-943396-02-6
- Elements of Solar Eclipses 1951-2200 (1989)
ISBN
0-943396-21-2
- Transits (1989)
- Astronomical Algorithms (1991), 1st ed.,
ISBN
0-943396-35-2
- 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
Fred Espenak) of Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000 (October 2006), NASA Technical paper 2006-214141 2006
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- co-author (with Fred Espenak) of Five Millennium Canon of Lunar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000 (January 2009), NASA Technical paper 2009-214172 2009
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