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Jan302024

WGN issue 51-6

Javor Kac - 0 Comment - In: WGN, wgn

W51-6b — Bright Geminid fireball passing through Orion at 18h30m UT on 2022 December 14, from Shahrud, Semnan Province, Iran. Image credit: Amin Golesorkh.

The December 2023 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:

IMC 2024 in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic
P. Koten, T. Henych
Meteor Spectroscopy: Visual Lookup for Elemental Abundances
J. Zender, D.V. Koschny, R. Rudawska, S. Loehle
August delta-Capricornids 2022 observations by CAMS
T.W. Beck, P. Jenniskens, CAMS team
Comparison of three different camera systems monitoring the meteor activity over Hungary in 2020–
2023
L. Deme, K. Sárneczky, A. Igaz, B. Csák, N. Opitz, N. Egei, J. Vinkó

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