Jean-Claude Merlin
Jean-Claude Merlin (born 1954) is a French astronomer and the founder-president of the Burgundy Astronomical Society. He has discovered minor planets. He received the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation’s Vocational Award in 1982 and the Georges Bidault de l’Isle Prize from the French Astronomical Society in 1999. The asteroid 57658 Nilrem, discovered by Michel Ory at Jura Observatory in 2001, is named after him; the naming was published on 6 March 2004.
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