Jean Meeus

Template:Short description Template:For Template:Use dmy dates Jean Meeus (born 12 December 1928) is a Belgian meteorologist and amateur astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics, spherical astronomy, and mathematical astronomy.<ref name="MPC-Asteroid-Meeus">

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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.<ref name="MAM" />

Awards and honors

In 1986, he won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.<ref name="Amateur Achievement Award">

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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, Template:ISBN
  • Astronomical Formulæ for Calculators (1985), 3rd ed. Enlarged and revised, Willmann-Bell Inc, Template:ISBN
  • Astronomical Formulæ for Calculators (1988), 4th ed. Enlarged and revised, Willmann-Bell Inc, Template:ISBN
  • 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) Template:Bibcode
• 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) Template:ISBN
  • Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets (1995), 2nd ed., Template:ISBN
  • Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets (2016), 3rd ed., Template:ISBN
• Elements of Solar Eclipses 1951-2200 (1989) Template:ISBN
• Transits (1989)
• Astronomical Algorithms (1991), 1st ed., Template:ISBN
  • Astronomical Algorithms (1998), 2nd ed., Template:ISBN
• Mathematical Astronomy Morsels (1997) Template:ISBN
• More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels (2002) Template:ISBN
• Mathematical Astronomy Morsels III (2004) Template:ISBN
• Mathematical Astronomy Morsels IV (2007) Template:ISBN
• Mathematical Astronomy Morsels V (2009) Template:ISBN
• co-author (with Fred Espenak) of Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000 (October 2006), NASA Technical paper 2006-214141 2006<ref>

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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<ref>

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External links

• Naughter Software implementation of Astronomical Algorithms, second edition 1998 in C++
• Navigation Spreadsheets implementation of Astronomical Algorithms, second edition 1998 in Microsoft Excel for celestial navigation purposes.
• PyMeeus is a Python implementation of the astronomical algorithms described in the classical book “Astronomical Algorithms, 2nd Edition, Willmann-Bell Inc. (1998)” by Jean Meeus.

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