Jean-Claude Merlin

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Jean-Claude Merlin (born 1954) 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 (). Provided by Wikipedia