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Philibert Jacques Melotte

1880 - 1961

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Philibert Jacques Melotte (29 January 1880 – 30 March 1961) was a British astronomer whose parents emigrated from Belgium. In 1908 he discovered a moon of Jupiter, today known as Pasiphaë. It was simply designated "Jupiter VIII" and was not given its present name until 1975. The outer main-belt asteroid 676 Melitta, the only asteroid he discovered, is named after the Attic form of the Greek Melissa, the bee, but its resemblance to the discoverer's name is not fortuitous. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philibert Jacques Melotte is the 281st most popular astronomer (up from 421st in 2019), the 2,318th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,444th in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Philibert Jacques Melotte ranks 281 out of 644. Before him are Daniel Kirkwood, Antonia Maury, Marguerite Laugier, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, André-Louis Danjon, and Geminiano Montanari. After him are Heber Doust Curtis, Raymond Smith Dugan, Harold Spencer Jones, James W. Christy, Jean Fernel, and Richard Martin West.

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Among people born in 1880, Philibert Jacques Melotte ranks 103. Before him are Frigyes Riesz, Ivar Kreuger, Walter Hohmann, Gabriel Voisin, Sholem Asch, and Leonard Woolf. After him are Princess Thyra of Denmark, Marie Stopes, Mihail Sadoveanu, Jeannette Rankin, Samuel Jones, and Louis Charles Breguet. Among people deceased in 1961, Philibert Jacques Melotte ranks 77. Before him are Nina Bari, Lucian Blaga, Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Valentin Bondarenko, Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, and Anton Flettner. After him are Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, Mihail Sadoveanu, Ty Cobb, Václav Talich, Ernest Payne, and Elia Dalla Costa.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Philibert Jacques Melotte ranks 2,318 out of 8,785. Before him are Bobby Collins (1931), H. J. R. Murray (1868), Edward Low (1690), Jim Carter (1948), Roger Byrne (1929), and Thomas Otway (1652). After him are Peter Crouch (1981), Robert Maynard (1684), Taliesin (518), Geoffrey Hughes (1944), George Frederic Watts (1817), and Sarah Miles (1941).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Philibert Jacques Melotte ranks 36. Before him are Francis Baily (1774), Edward L. G. Bowell (1943), Robert T. A. Innes (1861), Alfred Fowler (1868), James Ferguson (1710), and Edward Walter Maunder (1851). After him are Harold Spencer Jones (1890), Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), Richard Christopher Carrington (1826), David Gill (1843), John Machin (1680), and Beatrice Tinsley (1941).

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