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. An astronomer or astrophysicist is a person whose area of interest is astronomy or astrophysics. ... Celestial mechanics is a division of astronomy dealing with the motions and gravitational effects of celestial objects. ... 253 Mathilde, a C-type asteroid. ...

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. The Catholic University of Leuven, founded in 1425, is now the names of two Belgian universities, after the original university split in 1968: the Dutch-speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, and the French-speaking Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium This is a disambiguation page — a... licentiate- noun Someone who holds a certificate of competence to practise a profession. ... Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting. ... Brussels Airport (IATA: BRU, ICAO: EBBR) (also called in Dutch: Luchthaven Zaventem or in French: Aéroport de Zaventem), also Zaventem Airport or Brussels (Zaventem) International Airport, was formerly known as Brussel Nationaal/Bruxelles-National (Brussels National). ...

His area of interest is spherical and mathematical astronomy.

In 1986 he won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The Amateur Achievement Award recognizes significant contributions to astronomy or amateur astronomy by those not employed in the field of astronomy in a professional capacity. ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) was founded in San Francisco in 1889. ...

Publications

• 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) ISBN 0-943396-81-6
• Mathematical Astronomy Morsels IV (2007) ISBN 987-0-943396-87-63

References

• 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++
• Naughter Software implementation of Astronomical Algorithms, second edition 1998 in c++