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Frasso Sabino - Italy, 23-26 September 1999

  • 18th meeting
  • Local organizer : Roberto Gorelli (Ara Staff).
  • 56 participants from 13 countries: Argentina (1), Belgium (11), Bulgaria (3), Germany (5), Italy (11), Japan (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (5), Romania (8), Serbia (2), Slovenia (3), U.K. (2) and Ukraine (3).
  • 26 lectures of which 21 were included in the Proceedings.
  • IMC 1999 Proceedings (ISBN 978-2-87355-011-0): 156 pages (ed. Rainer Arlt).
  • Contents : Leonid modelling and observing - meteor physics - video observations - summer radiants - Taurids - Comet Lowe 1913 I - computer formats.
  • IMC-Report in WGN: October 1999 (26:5) (PDF)
  • IMC 1999 Program (PDF)
  • IMC 1999 Participants list (PDF)
  • IMC T-shirt: No
  • IMC 1999 logo : No logo
  • Participation fee 120 Euro.

The 1999 IMC happened during the famous Leonid return years which got lots of attention. The 1999 IMC was an expensive edition, but participants remember the meals to be the best ever at an IMC. These excellent dinners and an excursion to Farfa Abbey encouraged the social contacts. The alarm setting at 1 a.m. in the hotel of the IMC imposed a strict time limit for talks and guaranteed a minimum of sleep to all participants. The IMC location 50 km outside of Rome in the middle of remnants of the Roman Empire together with the Italian climate and cuisine characterized this IMC. Three special souvenirs: the enthusiasm provoked by the third Romanian Astroshow on Saturday evening, the moment when the first South-American participant at the IMC cried of emotion by seeing the northern sky constellations during a short visit at the ARA castle-observatory, and a small festivity with Japanese cakes (the IMC coinciding with the Moon Festival in Japan).

Acknowledgement : We thank Roberto Gorelli, Valentin Grigore, Enrico Stomeo and Valentin Velkov, for providing photographs of this 1999 IMC.
High resolution versions can be obtained on request for the images in the gallery.