Peter Jenniskens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Peter Jenniskens

Dutch astronomer

Date of Birth: 02-Aug-1962

Place of Birth: Horst, Limburg, Netherlands

Profession: astronomer

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Petrus Matheus Marie (Peter) Jenniskens (born 2 August 1962 in Horst) is a Dutch and American astronomer and a senior research scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute and at NASA Ames Research Center.
He is an expert on meteor showers.
Jenniskens is the author of the 790 page book "Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets" published by Cambridge University Press in 2006.
Jenniskens is president of Commission 22 of the International Astronomical Union (2012-2015) and was chair of the Working Group on Meteor Shower Nomenclature (2006–2012) after it was first established.
Discovered at Ondrejov Observatory by Petr Pravec, asteroid "42981 Jenniskens" is named in his honor. In 2008, Jenniskens together with Muawia Shaddad, led a team from the University of Khartoum in Sudan that recovered fragments of asteroid 2008 TC3 in the Nubian Desert, marking the first time meteorite fragments had been found from an object that was previously tracked in outer space before hitting Earth.