# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-jenniskens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:55:51.715Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-jenniskens"
name: "Peter Jenniskens"
slug: "peter-jenniskens"
description: "Petrus Matheus Marie (Peter) Jenniskens is a Dutch-American astronomer and a senior research scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute and at NASA Ames Research Center. He is an expert on meteor showers, and wrote the book Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets, published in 2006 and Atlas of Earth’s Meteor Showers, published in 2023. He is past president of Commission 22 of the International Astronomical Union (2012–2015) and was chair of the Working Group on Meteor Shower Nomenclature (2006–2012) after it was first established. Asteroid 42981 Jenniskens is named in his honor."
tagline: "Dutch astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/323213main_Petersmeteorites_946-710.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1962-08-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.872498666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Peter Jenniskens"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jenniskens"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump