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Bollmannsruh - Germany, 19-21 September 2003

  • 22nd meeting
  • Local organizers: Jürgen Rendtel (AKM).
  • 79 participants from 14 countries: Belgium (9), Bulgaria (7), Croatia (1), France (1), Germany (22), Japan (6), the Netherlands (11), Romania (5), Russia (1), Slovakia (5), Slovenia (5), Spain (2), Switzerland (1) and U.K. (3).
  • 39 presentations (27 lectures, 12 posters) of which 29 were included in the Proceedings.
  • IMC 2003 Proceedings (ISBN 978-2-87355-014-1): 194 pages (eds. Mihaela Triglav-Cekada, Chris Trayner).
  • Contents: Radio and radar observations - photographic and video results - meteoroid stream modelling.
  • Participation fee 115 Euro.
For the 7th time in its history the IMC took place in Germany. It was the most "ecological" IMC, in the modern hall of a camping placed in a forest, near a lake. The many interesting presentations resulted in the thickest Proceedings so far. An excursion was organized to Berlin to visit the meteorite collection in the Von Humbolt University. The traditional Romanian Astroshow had three professional astronomers from other countries as poet guests. Exceptional warm weather kept participants all Saturday night long around a campfire after the barbecue.

Acknowledgement: We thank Rainer Arlt, Galina Ryabova, Casper ter Kuile and Jean-Marc Wislez for the photographs of this 2003 IMC.
High resolution versions can be obtained on request for most of the images in the gallery.