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	May 2000 Doomsday Prediction (Skeptical Inquirer Spring 1998)
		They now predict a catastrophe for the year 2000, because in May of that year the planets Jupiter and Saturn will be simultaneously behind the Sun as seen from Earth.
		Meeus, J. comments on "The Jupiter Effect." Icarus 26:257-267.
		Jean Meeus is a Belgian amateur astronomer and a specialist in mathematical astronomy.
	www.csicop.org /si/8804/doomsday.html (974 words)

	Jean Meeus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean Meeus (born 1928) is a Belgian astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Meeus (172 words)

	Transit of Venus Bibliography - text2a
		Jean Meeus, “The Transits of Venus 3000 B.C. to A.D. Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 68 (1958), 98-108.
		Jean Meeus, “The Transit of the Earth on 1984 May 11”, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 72 (1962), 286.
		Jean Meeus and Edwin Goffin, “Transits of Earth as Seen from Mars”, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 93 (1983), 120-123.
	www.phys.uu.nl /~vgent/venus/venus_text2.htm (3538 words)

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		Jean Meeus has created a valuable reference for all who love the sky.
		Meeus' clear style of explanation liberally sprinkled with examples quickly becomes apparent in his introductory note on time reckoning and the two different time scales used throughout this work.
		Meeus points out several periodicities between planetary events, and many more can be discovered by examining his tables.
	www.edu-observatory.org /eo/bkr/bkr.92.05 (1779 words)

	Astro::Coord::ECI::Moon - Compute the position of the Moon. - search.cpan.org
		Jean Meeus' "Astronomical Algorithms", 2nd Edition, Chapter 49 page 349, defines the phases of the moon in terms of the difference between the geocentric longitudes of the moon and sun - specifically, that new, first quarter, full, and last quarter are the moments when this difference is 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees respectively.
		This is different than the "phase angle" of the Moon, which Meeus defines as the elongation of the Earth from the Sun, as seen from the Moon.
		Meeus gives the accuracy as 10 seconds of arc in latitude, and 4 seconds of arc in longitude.
	search.cpan.org /~wyant/Astro-satpass-0.009/ECI/Moon.pm (888 words)

	Annotated ECLIPSE.POV
		Astronomical Algorithms, Jean Meeus, Willman-Bell, 1991 Meeus is a Belgian amateur astronomer, acclaimed for the accessibility of his handbooks on 'do it yourself' celestial mechanics.
		Meeus' method is a simplified version of the ELP-2000/82 lunar theory proposed by Chapront-Touze and Chapront in [3] and later refined in [4].
		As Meeus [1] p182 says, 'the mean anomaly [of a planet] is the angular distance from perihelion which the planet would have if it moved around the Sun with a constant angular velocity'.
	www.pavium.info /Eclipse/eclpov.html (3502 words)

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		Jean Meeus (born 1928) is a Belgian astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics.
		The asteroid 2213 Meeus is named after him.
		Jean Meeus studied mathematics at the University of Leuven in Belgium, where he received the Degree of Licentiate in 1953.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Jean_Meeus (195 words)

	Jean Meeus
		Jean Meeus is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		The problem for Christians using the solar Julian calendar was that the passion and resurrection of Jesus occurred during the Jewish feast of Passover, which Jews celebrate accordi...
		Supposing a solar and lunar year start on the same day, with a crescent new moon indicating the beginning of a new lunar month on 1 January, 11 days of the new lunar year will have already passed by the commencement of the new solar year.
	www.experiencefestival.com /jean_meeus (831 words)

	DEBABRAT MISHRA HOME PAGE
		Been curious how the nautical almanac is made, with the help of internet sites and valuable books by Jean Meeus and Paul J Hefner, I got to know the formulas used for making an almanac.
		Meeus book but the very elaborate (around 25000, for all the objects) obtained from various sources.
		Pluto is not added in this version as it is not required for navigation but anyway will be added in the next version along with eclipses, different type of sailings and various methods of position fixing.Your comments (snide included) and suggestions are welcome.Screen shot is placed below.
	storm.prohosting.com /butu1987 (341 words)

	Book Review - More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels by Jean Meeus
		Previous books by Meeus have been aimed at the mathematically minded astronomer who wants to understand the solar system from this point of view as a basis of working with the dynamics.
		But Morsels and now his new book, More Morsels, are subtly different and a much lighter read for the astronomer who isn't necessarily interested in the maths for its own end but who appreciates a fuller explanation of predictable astronomical events and observations without having to take onboard the deep understanding of the mechanics.
		The initial response was not very encouraging, in fact rather dismissive, but then a flurry of e-mails from Meeus over the next few days resulted as the implications of the question obviously sank in.
	www.mikeoates.org /mas/reviews/morsels.htm (314 words)

	Planetary Pileup: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
		May 2000's planet pileup was first noticed nearly 40 years ago by Belgian astronomer Jean Meeus.
		In the interval from 1000 to 2400 A.D., Meeus found that the very tightest five-planet grouping (5.7 degrees wide) came and went uneventfully on June 25, 710.
		Meeus detailed his findings about May's planetary alignment, how the fuss all began, and how it compares with others in a 1997 Sky & Telescope article Why Panic.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/planets-align-00c.html (622 words)

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		// Most algorithms are based on Jean Meeus book _Astronomical Algorithms_ // Sign conventions // It is highly recommended that you use these constants instead of // assuming a sign convention.
		These are the conventions used in Meeus and // many other astronomical calculations, which often differ than sign // conventions used in geoinformatics.
		// This is equation 16.4 in Meeus, although the equation in the book // is explained ridiculously poorly, and I had to dig through old // Sky & Telescope program listings to figure out how to apply the equation.
	futureboy.homeip.net /frinksamp/sun.frink (1376 words)

	Four Hills Ranch Forum
		However – strictly speaking – says Meeus, such an alignment never occurs, because three (or more) planets can never be exactly aligned.
		Meeus has also defined the term "planetary trio" as when three planets fit within a circle with a minimum diameter smaller than 5 degrees.
		Your clinched fist held at arm's length, for instance, is equal to roughly 10 degrees; the pointer stars at the end of the bowl of the Big Dipper are separated by just over five degrees).
	pub45.bravenet.com /forum/3806735122/show/509882 (1399 words)

	Amazon.com: Astronomical Algorithms: Books: Jean Meeus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Meeus' book is absolutely invaluable for producing programs that require knowledge of the locations of the Sun, Moon and planets at any particular time.
		With his special knack for computations of all sorts, Jean Meeus has made the essentials of powerful new machine methods for modeling the motions and interactions of bodies within the solar system available to us all.
		It may be a great review book for those who already have a good understanding of this subject, but it is almost worthless for educating someone who is new to these algorithms.
	www.amazon.com /Astronomical-Algorithms-Jean-Meeus/dp/0943396352 (1484 words)

	Jean Meeus - author of "Astronomical Algorithms"
		Jean Meeus has provided a bridge text for dedicated amateurs interested in astronomical and solar event calculations.
		Programming the calculations provided by Meeus is possible using any modern programming language.
		Meeus covers a wide range of astronomical areas.
	www.sunlit-design.com /infosearch/meeus.php?indexref=2 (133 words)

	Astro::Coord::ECI::Sun - Compute the position of the Sun. - search.cpan.org
		It is a subclass of Astro::Coord::ECI, with the id, name, and diameter attributes initialized appropriately, and the time_set() method overridden to compute the position of the Sun at the given time.
		Since we only calculate the Sun's position to the nearest 0.01 degree, the calculated solstice or equinox may be in error by as much as 15 minutes.
		Although this method is attached to an object that represents the Sun, what it actually returns is the sidereal period of the Earth, per Appendix I (pg 408) of Jean Meeus' "Astronomical Algorithms," 2nd edition.
	search.cpan.org /~wyant/Astro-satpass-0.009/ECI/Sun.pm (827 words)

	AA+ v1.25
		Source code is provided with the book, but it includes (IMHO) a restrictive license, as well as not having been updated for the 2nd revision of the book which includes new and interesting chapters, on areas such as the Moons of Saturn and the Moslem and Jewish Calendars.
		The Meeus implementation automatically assumes the Gregorian Calendar came into effect on 15 October 1582 (JD: 2299161), while the CAADate implementation has a "m_bGregorianCalendar" value to decide if the date was specified in the Gregorian or Julian Calendars.
		Jean Meeus has confirmed that there is definitely a bug in the Moslem calendar algorithms which make up the CAAMoslemCalendar class.
	www.naughter.com /aa.html (1684 words)

	PREDICTABLE ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS
		Meeus, J., "Extreme Perigees and Apogees of the Moon", (Sky & Telescope, Aug.
		Ottewell, G., The Astronomical Companion, 1979, page 32-33, Dept of Physics, Furman University, Greenville, S.C. Excellent source reference (numerous diagrams) for explaining the motion and movement of orbiting solar system objects.
		Meeus, J., "The Transit of Venus 3000 B.C. to 3000 A.D", Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.
	climate.gi.alaska.edu /Curtis/astroref.html (868 words)

	Astrolabe: Astronomical subroutines and applications
		This is the same as used in Meeus.
		The model produces positions of better than 1 arc-second for Mercury through Mars for the years -2000 to +4000, for Jupiter and Saturn for the years 0 to +4000, and for Uranus and Neptune for the years -4000 to +8000.
		Meeus prints a truncated version of the model in his book.
	astrolabe.sourceforge.net (1139 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The idea to create this database came from Christian Steyaert who dis- covered the old archive of Jean Meeus (with observations from 1962 until 1978) in 1988.
		Apart from Jean Meeus' archive another major source was found in Bertus Kroon's archive.
		The observations of the Dutch group that formed around him limited the gap between Jean Meeus' archive (until 1978) and the current activities of the BWGS (from 1987 onwards new observations guarantee a follow-up).
	www.satobs.org /ppas/node2.html (169 words)

	Mathematical Astronomy Morsels
		By Jean Meeus, 6.00" by 9.00", 400 hardbound, published 2004, 3 Lbs.
		In this third volume of his Morsels series, Belgian astronomer Jean Meeus deals masterfully with a host of new questions about eclipses and planetary conjunctions — things that anyone from a curious child to a serious skywatcher might wonder about.
		Jean Meeus, born in 1928, studied mathematics at the University of Louvain (Leuven) in Belgium, where he received the Degree of Licentiate in 1953.
	www.willbell.com /MATH/MC18.htm (1243 words)

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		,,Ze gaan georganiseerd te werk'', stelt Jean Meeus (CDandV).
		,,Inbraken in voertuigen zijn weer aan een opmars bezig'', vervolgt Jean Meeus.
		Intussen zijn die daders al wel opgepakt, in Zemst'', zegt Jean Meeus.
	www.nieuwsblad.be /Article/Detail.aspx?articleid=GT713PFFT (320 words)

	Celestial Delights \| Mars 2003: The View from Earth
		Last year, Belgian astronomer Jean Meeus published the results of his study of Mars close approaches in his book More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels (Willmann-Bell, Inc., 2002).
		Using analytical theories developed at the Bureau des Longitudes in France, Meeus showed that Mars will be closer to us on August 27 than at any time in the past 73,000 years.
		In the spring of 2002, Meeus asked Aldo Vitagliano of the Universitá di Napoli Federico II in Naples, Italy, to check his result using numerical integration.
	www.spaceweather.com /delights/mars2003_View.html (1113 words)

	Moon's position to 10 arcsec - implementation of an algorithm from Meeus 'Astronomical Formulas for Calculators' - ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I have implemented the algorithm for finding the mean geocentric longitude and latitude of the Moon which forms chapter 30 of Jean Meeus' book
		QBASIC program based on the algorithm, and modified the program to produce daily Moon positions for the whole of a 'Saros' cycle of about 18.6 years ending around J2000.
		I compared values from the Meeus algorithm with a series generated using Manfred Ding's Ephtool Lite ephemeris program, together with his DLL implementing the full ELP-2000/82 analytical lunar theory.
	www.stargazing.net /Kepler/moon4.html (210 words)

	Books and Products from AS&T
		Belgian astronomer Jean Meeus has spent his life studying the maths behind the patterns and cycles of celestial events, ranging from total solar and lunar eclipses to the distribution of Easter.
		Fascinating and well written, this book will be popular with all levels of astronomer, from the newbie to the seasoned semi-pro.
		Jean Meeus’s third book of his Morsels series continues his tradition of highlighting fascinating celestial trivia about the Moon, eclipses, planetary motions, and more.
	www.austskyandtel.com.au /books.htm (1067 words)

	Solar Calculation Details (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The calculations in the NOAA Sunrise/Sunset and Solar Position Calculators are based on equations from Astronomical Algorithms, by Jean Meeus.
		The sunrise and sunset results have been verified to be accurate to within a minute for locations between +/- 72° latitude, and within 10 minutes outside of those latitudes.
		For the purposes of these calculators the current Gregorian calendar is extrapolated backward through time.
	www.srrb.noaa.gov /highlights/sunrise/calcdetails.html (253 words)

	"Jean Meeus" at ChooseBooks - Register of Antiquarian Books (order antiquarian books online)
		This is just the place to discover over 20 million of rare, used and out-of-print books, sheets of music, graphic art, postcards and more from antiquarian bookshops in 20 countries.
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	www.choosebooks.com /offers/jean-meeus.html (364 words)

	Darkness on Wednesday (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to the newspapers, the full Moon on 27 February was the brightest of the year.
		In clear prose, with just enough mathematics to soothe the appetites of equation lovers, Meeus exposes, explores and explains the strange and funny titbits of astronomy.
		Most of them are just as useless as knowing the one-billionth decimal of pi, but then, they’re every bit as interesting.
	www.govertschilling.nl /artikelen/new_scientist/020330_ns.htm (216 words)

	SOLVING PROBLEMS
		-2003 to +2526, and Meeus and Mucke, Canon of Lunar Eclipses.
		Two books that give basic formulas in a useful form are Jean Meeus, Astronomial Formulae for Calculators (2d ed., Richmond, VA: Willmann-Bell, 1982), an excellent introduction, and Almanac for Computers (Nautical Almanac Office, U.S. Naval Observatory, 1980 and later), with tables of data for the year published.
		It is possible to generate a simple table or map for any eclipse—although not to observe it as it would appear from the earth—with a rough-and-ready freeware program for personal computers called EMAPWIN.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~nsivin/astro.html (1192 words)

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