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British astronomer (born 1948)
Jacqueline Mitton (née Pardoe, born 1948) is a British
astronomer , writer, and media consultant who lives and works in
Cambridge , UK. She studied at
Somerville College, Oxford and
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge . She has served as Public Relations Officer for the
Royal Astronomical Society .
[1] From 1987 to 1993, she was the editor of the
Journal of the British Astronomical Association .
[2] She has authored, co-authored, or contributed to many books.
Mitton's career has focused on bringing astronomy to the public - both adults and children - as a writer. She received a Bachelor of Arts at Oxford University in 1969 and a PhD at Cambridge University in 1975. Her 1998 picture book Zoo in the Sky introduces children to astronomy through an explanation of the stars and animal constellations.
[3] Her 2003 book Once Upon a Starry Night introduces children to myths and facts about the solar system.
She was a
county councillor for Cambridgeshire from 1989 to 1993.[
citation needed ]
Asteroid
4027 Mitton is named after her and her husband
Simon Mitton .
Books
(not a complete list)
Astronomy: an introduction (1978)
Key definitions in astronomy (1980)
Discovering Astronomy (1983), with
Simon Mitton
A Visitor's Introduction to the Antarctic and its Environment (1984), with
Nigel Bonner
Invitation to Astronomy (1986), with Simon Mitton
Gems of Hubble (1996), with
Stephen P. Maran
Discovering the Planets (1991)
The Young Oxford book of Astronomy (1994), with Simon Mitton
The Great Comet Crash: The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter (1995), co-edited with John Spencer
Galileo: scientist and star gazer (1997)
Aliens (1998)
The Marshall children's guide to astronomy (1998), with Simon Mitton
Zoo in the Sky: a book of animal constellations (1998)
Kingdom of the sun: a book of the planets (2001)
"Working with the media: the Royal Astronomical Society experience", in Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy II (2001), ed.
André Heck
Stars and planets (2002)
Once Upon a Starry Night: Heroes and Gods of the Constellations (2003), republished as The Planet Gods
Oxford Astronomy (2003), with Simon Mitton
Zodiac: celestial circle of the sun (2004)
Cambridge illustrated dictionary of astronomy (2007)
Moon (2009)
I see the moon (2010)
Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Unveiled (2010), with
Ralph Lorenz
Space (2016)
From dust to life : the origin and evolution of our solar system (2017), with
John Chambers
The Penguin Dictionary of Astronomy (various editions)
References
External links
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