Jean-Claude Merlin


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Jean-Claude Merlin is a French astronomer, founder-president of the Burgundy Astronomical Society 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.

List of discovered minor planets

10233 Le CreusotDecember 5, 1997
15042 AnndavguiDecember 14, 1998
25625 VerdenetJanuary 5, 2000
37044 PapymarcelOctober 27, 2000
67979 MicheloryDecember 4, 2000
88795 MorvanSeptember 20, 2001
98494 MarsupilamiOctober 27, 2000
99262 BleusteinJuly 20, 2001
110393 RammsteinOctober 11, 2001
125592 ButhiersDecember 15, 2001
125718 JemasalomonDecember 15, 2001
135268 HaigneréSeptember 20, 2001
155142 TenagraOctober 26, 2005
157747 MandrykaFebruary 2, 2006
158222 ManicolasSeptember 20, 2001
172850 CoppensMarch 3, 2005
181279 IapyxJanuary 22, 2006
181627 PhilgeluckDecember 8, 2006
184275 LaffraJanuary 6, 2005
184878 GotlibOctober 26, 2005
198993 EpoignyNovember 20, 2005
205424 BibracteApril 13, 2001
221230 SanaloriaOctober 30, 2005
221465 Rapa NuiJanuary 28, 2006
224592 CarnacDecember 22, 2005

362316 DogoraNovember 15, 2009
369423 Quintegr’alJanuary 28, 2006
371220 AngersJanuary 22, 2006
374354 PesquetOctober 30, 2005
375007 BuxyApril 14, 2007
375176 BéziauFebruary 28, 2008
381048 WerberNovember 17, 2006
383492 AubertJanuary 21, 2007
383508 VadrotFebruary 9, 2007
388370 PaulbluOctober 20, 2006
419435 TiramisuFebruary 14, 2010
423645 QuénissetDecember 22, 2005
434678 CurlinJanuary 22, 2006
440670 BécassineDecember 22, 2005
475080 JarryOctober 26, 2005
490628 ChassignyJanuary 24, 2010
547666 MorgonMarch 03, 2005
548032 EnsisheimJanuary 17, 2010
552385 RochechouartDecember 25, 2013
555955 LurçatNovember 20, 2005
569484 IrisdementOctober 26, 2005
570814 NauruNovember 18, 2006
588108 BoteropopMay 8, 2007
596543 UbuNovember 6, 2005