International Meteor Organization
Stará Lesná - Slovakia, 20-23 August 1998
- 17th meeting
- Local organizers : Peter Zimnikoval and Daniel Ocenás.
- 64 participants from 14 countries: Belgium (4), Bulgaria (6), Canada (1), Czech Republic (1), Germany (9), Japan (7), the Netherlands (4), Poland (3), Romania (4), Slovakia (15), Slovenia (2), Spain (3), U.K. (4) and U.S.A. (1).
- 21 presentations of which 19 were included in the Proceedings.
- IMC 1998 Proceedings (ISBN 978-2-87355-010-3): 117 pages (eds. Rainer Arlt, André Knöfel).
- Contents: Double-station video observations - automated video recording - heights of meteors - June Bootids and other summer showers - Taurids - Leonids - the forward scatter year.
- IMC-Report in WGN: October 1998 (26:5) (PDF)
- IMC 1998 Program (PDF)
- IMC 1998 Participants list (PDF)
- IMC T-shirt: No
- Participation fee 85 Euro.
The good experience in 1992 favored another IMC connected to a professional meeting of "Meteoroids". The June Bootids outburst and Leonid perspectives were highlights at this IMC. The IMC (hosted in a hotel near the High Tatras mountains) allowed to visit the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory (1786m altitude) during the excursion. The presence of some professional meteor astronomers (from Commission 22 of the International Astronomical Union, NASA/SETI Institute, etc.) at the IMC and of several amateurs at the professional Meteoroid Conference proved to be of mutual interest. The Saturday evening Romanian Astroshow (including five dramatic acts of poetry/music) fully contributed to the good heart of the participants and became thus a tradition at the IMC. Another original moment was a German informal piano recital given by an IMO councillor in one of the evenings.
Acknowledgement : We thank Valentin Grigore, Valentin Velkov and Peter Zimnikoval for providing photographs of this 1998 IMC.
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