Topics

Topics must relate to meteor astronomy and include - but are not restricted to - the following:

A - Meteor showers & sporadic background

  • Results from visual, video, radio observations
  • Distribution, activity of showers and background
  • Analysis reports, results
  • Discoveries of new showers

B - Fireballs, meteorite recovery

  • Exceptional fireball reports
  • Collecting observations from the public
  • Camera networks
  • Analysis reports, results
  • Meteorite recoveries, search activities

C - Parent bodies, meteoroids, meteorites, planets and their relation

  • Relation between parent bodies, meteoroids and meteorites
  • Parent body dynamics & fragmentation
  • Parent body observations

D - Numeric modeling

  • Predictions of future meteor showers
  • Algorithms, models, methods
  • Testing of theoretical models
  • Etc.

E - Atmospheric processes and phenomena

  • Ablation processes
  • Deceleration of meteors
  • Dark flights
  • Ionization of meteor trails,
  • Meteors in atmospheres of other planets

F - Observing techniques

  • Visual
  • Video
  • Photographic
  • Spectroscopic
  • Telescopic
  • Radio
  • Lunar
  • Observing from space
  • Very low frequency radio observation

G - Instruments, data pipelines, software

  • Camera systems
  • Lenses
  • Spectroscopes
  • Radio antennas, receivers
  • (Automatic) reduction software
  • (Image) acquisition software
  • Orbit calculation algorithms
  • Control electronics

H - Observing campaigns

  • Reports
  • Anecdotes
  • Future plans
  • Ideas

Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)

Jean-Louis Rault (chair)
Felix Bettonvil
Marc Gyssens
Dušan Pavlović

The SOC can be contacted via the Contact page.