Jean Meeus
Jean Meeus is a Belgian meteorologist and amateur astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics, spherical astronomy, and mathematical astronomy.
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.Awards and honors
In 1986, he won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The main belt asteroid 2213 Meeus was named after him by the International Astronomical Union in 1981 for his contributions to the field.Publications
- Tables of Moon and Sun
- Syzygies Tables
- co-author of Canon of Solar Eclipses
- co-author of Tables of Minor Planets
- Astronomical Formulae for Calculators, 1st ed,
- * Astronomical Formulae for Calculators, 4th ed Enlarged and revised, Willmann-Bell Inc,
- * Astronomical Formulas for Microcalculators
- co-author of Canon of Lunar Eclipses: -2000 to +2526
- co-author of Canon of Solar Eclipses -2003 to +2526
- Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets
- *Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets, 2nd ed,
- *Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets, 3rd ed,
- Elements of Solar Eclipses 1951-2200
- Transits
- Astronomical Algorithms, 1st ed,
- * Astronomical Algorithms, 2nd ed,
- Mathematical Astronomy Morsels
- More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels
- Mathematical Astronomy Morsels III
- Mathematical Astronomy Morsels IV
- Mathematical Astronomy Morsels V
- co-author of Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000, NASA Technical paper 2006-214141 2006
- co-author of Five Millennium Canon of Lunar Eclipses: -1999 to +3000, NASA Technical paper 2009-214172 2009
