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Place of Birth: Le Creusot, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
About Jean-Claude Merlin
- Jean-Claude Merlin (born 1954) is a French astronomer, founder-president of the Burgundy Astronomical Society (French: Société Astronomique de Bourgogne) and a discoverer of minor planets.
- He was laureate of the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Fondation de la Vocation in 1982 and received the Prix Georges Bidault de l'Isle of the Société astronomique de France in 1999.The main-belt asteroid 57658 Nilrem, discovered by Michel Ory at the Jura Observatory in 2001, is named after him.
- Its naming citation was published on 6 March 2004 (M.P.C.
- 51190).
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