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WGN 45:4 out now!
The August 2017 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: New radio meteor…
UPDATE (27/09/2017) Bright Fireball over The Netherlands
The IMO has received over 470 reports so far about of a fireball event seen above Amsterdam on September 21th, 2017 around 09:00pm CST (19:00 Universal Time). The fireball was seen primarily from…
Definitions of terms in meteor astronomy (IAU)
Meteor, Meteoroid, Interplanetary Dust, Meteorite, Meteoric Smoke ... the IAU definitions
Perseid 3-body mean-motion resonance
The activity period of the Perseid meteor shower is now close to its end (predicted around August 24), and the activity profile of this year seems to indicate that the 2017 Perseid return was normal…
CAMS-BeNeLux observations of eta-Lyrids & tau-Herculids
In May and June 2017, routine observations of CAMS-BeNeLux video network recorded meteoric activity from the eta-Lyrids and tau-Herculids (061 TAH) meteor showers. These interesting sets of data…
Observing the Perseids in 2017
The Perseids are often the most impressive Meteor Shower of the year for the Northern Hemisphere. The Perseids offers a consistently high rate of meteors every year and it occurs in August when the…
Fireball Over Southern France
The International Meteor Organization have received 65 reports so far about of a fireball event seen above Southern France on August, 4 th 2017 around 23:10 French Time (21:10 UT).
Widely reported fireball near Seattle on July 30!
On July 30, 2017, around 04h53 UT (July 29, 9:53pm PDT), a bright fireball was widely observed over the states of Washington, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and British Columbia (Canada): at the present…
Meteorite recovery in Morocco after fireball observation on July 12th!
On the evening of July 12, 2017, at 22:10 UT, a very bright fireball was observed by thousands of eyewitnesses in an area 140 km to the south of the town of Tata, in the rural community of Ait…
Bright fireball associated to an asteroidal fragment over Madrid!
An impressive fireball from asteroidal origin was registered during the July, 26-27 night over the skies of the Spanish cities of Toledo and Madrid. Detectors located at the observatory of Calar Alto…
UPDATE : A meteor shower from C/2015 D4 (Borisov) on July 29?
Discovered on 2015, February 23rd, by Gennady Borisov, the comet C/2015 D4 (Borisov) is a long-period one, which will be back in the inner Solar system in more than 200 years. Its last perihelion was…
Viewing the Southern delta-Aquariids in 2017
The Southern delta-Aquariids (SDA) are active from July 21 through August 23 with maximum activity occurring on July 30. This shower possesses a very asymmetric activity profile in that it quickly…
Sixth authenticated meteorite fall over the Netherlands
On June 26, 2017, the most recently found Dutch meteorite was presented at the famous Natural History Museum in Leiden, the Netherlands. It is an L6 ordinary chondrite of 530 gram (including the 20…
WGN 45:3 out now!
The June 2017 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: Thirty-Seventh…
Thank you!
Between 2005 and 2014, the number of IMO Members/WGN Subscribers rose from 192 to 299. The reason for this evolution is probably complex. The growing interest in meteor astronomy has certainly been a…
2018 Meteor Shower Calendar
The 28 th International Meteor Organization Meteor Shower Calendar is available! The main intention of the annual International Meteor Organization Meteor Shower Calendar is to draw the attention of…
Fireballs over Western Europe on May 30 and June 1
On May 30th (21h 09min UT) and June 1st (22h 38min UT), two nice fireballs crossed the Europeans skies and where catched on videos and observed by visual observers over Northern Italy and the English…
Participating to the 2017 IMC in Petnica
The 2017 IMC, which will be held on September 21-24 in Petnica, Serbia, is not too far away any more and - if you have not done yet - it is time to prepare for it...
