Jean Meeus

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Jean Meeus (born 1928) is a Belgian astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics. He is sometimes known as Jan Meeus. The asteroid 2213 Meeus is named after him.

Jean Meeus studied mathematics at the University of Louvain (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.

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• co-author of Canon of Solar Eclipses (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
• Canon of Lunar Eclipses (1979)
• Canon of Solar Eclipses (1983)
• Astronomical formulas for microcalculators (1988) (Russian Edition, Moscow ,"Mir", 1988)
• 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
• Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets (1983) ISBN 0-943396-02-6
• Mathematical Astronomy Morsels (1997) ISBN 0-943396-51-4
• More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels (2002) ISBN 0-943396-74-3
• Mathematical Astronomy Morsels III (2004)

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[edit] External links

• An implementation of Astronomical Algorithms. Calculate MJD, Equation of Time and Solar Declination in Excel, CAD or your other programs. The Sun API is free and extremely accurate. For Windows Computers.

• Bill McClain implementation of Astronomical Algorithms, second edition 1998 in python and c++