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Govert Schilling (born 30 November 1956) is a Dutch popular science writer and amateur astronomer.
Career
[edit]Schilling was born in Meerkerk. In 1982, he became the program leader at the former Zeiss Planetarium, Amsterdam.
From 1987 to 1998 he was also a part-time appointee as a program leader at the Artis Planetarium in Amsterdam.
He has extensively written for the Sky & Telescope magazine[1] and the journal Science.[2]
Honours
[edit]The asteroid 10986 Govert is named after him.[3]
Bibliography
[edit]He is the author of a number of bestselling books.[4]
He has frequently collaborated with Lars Lindberg Christensen.
- Europe to the Stars: ESO's first 50 years of exploring the southern sky
- Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries
- Evolving Cosmos
- Eyes on the Skies: 400 Years of Telescopic Discovery
- The Hunt for Planet X: New Worlds and the Fate of Pluto ISBN 978-0-387-77804-4
- Flash!: The Hunt for the Biggest Explosions in the Universe
- Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves and the Future of Astronomy
- Target Earth: Meteorites, Asteroids, Comets, and Other Cosmic Intruders That Threaten Our Planet (2025)[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ "The world's oldest known heliocentric model is completely backwards".
- ↑ Schilling, Govert (June 2001). "Deep-Space 'Filament' Shows Cosmic Fabric". Science. 292 (5522): 1629–1631. doi:10.1126/science.292.5522.1629b. PMID 11387452. Archived from the original on 10 June 2014.
- ↑ Radio Netherlands' science producer Anne Blair Gould conducted a wide-ranging interview with Govert Schilling in 2005
- ↑ "Govert Schilling".
- ↑ Schilling, Govert (2025). Target Earth: Meteorites, Asteroids, Comets, and Other Cosmic Intruders That Threaten Our Planet. US: MIT Press. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
