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May182021

WGN issue 49-2

Javor Kac - 0 Comment - In: WGN

wgn49-2 — Bright fireball on 2020 August 22, at 04h34m UT, from Dalkeith, Ontario, Canada.
Photo courtesy: Samer Hobeika.

The April 2021 issue of the IMO Journal is now in print. It will be mailed shortly and subscribers can also immediately access the journal in PDF format. The contents this month:

Letter — My (first?) Corona Year (P.C. Slansky)
In memoriam: Esko Lyytinen (06.11.1942 – 24.12.2020) (P. Jenniskens, J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez, M. Gritsevich)
International Meteor Conference – September 25th/26th, 2021 (The IMO Council and the IMC 2021 SOC)
Simultaneous estimation of ZHR and the limiting magnitude correction factor (J. Richter)
Ten years of fireballs and video meteors observations (V. Bahýl)
Result of the IMO Video Meteor Network – Second Quarter 2019 (S. Molau, S. Crivello, R. Goncalves, C. Saraiva, E. Stomeo, J. Strunk, J. Kac)

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