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Frombork - Poland, 26-29 September 2002

  • 21st meeting
  • Local organizers: Arkadiusz Olech, Kamil Zloczewski, Piotr Kedzierski, Mariusz Wisniewski
  • 64 participants from 15 countries: Belarus (2), Belgium (6), Bulgaria (7), China (2), Croatia (2), France (1), Germany (8), Italy (1), the Netherlands (4), Poland (17), Romania (7), Russia (1), Slovenia (3), Switzerland (1) and U.K. (2).
  • 28 presentations all of which were included in the Proceedings.
  • IMC 2002 Proceedings (ISBN 978-83-85962-007-6): 175 pages (eds. Arkadiusz Olech, Kamil Zloczewski, Krzysztof Mularczyk).
  • Contents: Leonids 2001 - Perseids 2002 - minor shower investigations - video and CCD observations.
  • Participation fee 100 Euro.
This event was organized by the active Polish meteor observers in the beautiful city of Frombork, the native place of Nicholas Copernicus, right in Hotel... Copernicus. The excursion to the Cathedral hill, including a planetarium and many memories about the heliocentric-theory founder, offered a beautiful organ concert. The participants also went in a nocturnal (unlucky) expedition to the gulf of the Baltic Sea, trying to find the boreal aurora. This IMC benefited from an Argentinean correspondance from Antarctica, and the Saturday evening Astroshow had participants from 3 countries.

Acknowledgement: We thank Axel Haas, Javor Kac and Casper ter Kuile for providing photographs of this 2002 IMC.