WGN issue 53-1 - February 2025

The February 2025 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:

• Janus
  C. Verbeeck

• International Meteor Conference 2025 in Soest, The Netherlands: register now!

• Shower Activity in April and May 2025
  R. Lunsford

• Stronger than expected – analysis of the Draconid outburst in 2018, observed from Austria
  T. Weiland

• The Central European MetEor NeTwork in 2024
  J. Koukal, J. Srba, L. Lenža, M. Ferus, A. Mikušková, T. Csörgei, V. Bahýl, R. Káčerek, J. Kapuš, M. Poláček, P. Svozil, K. Trutnovský, M. Spurný, J. Mäsiar, P. Komárek, V. Mešter

• Enhancing Satellite Impact Risk Assessments through Automated Meteoroid Fragmentation Analysis by the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory
  M. Vovk, P. G. Brown, D. Vida

• Determining the mineralogical density of meteoroids
  T. Vörös, J. Tóth

• Spectral properties of ablating meteorites for improved meteoroid composition diagnostics
  P. Matlovič, A. Pisarčíková, V. Pazderová, J. Tóth

• An amateur’s approach to the identification of meteorites
  G. Drolshagen, A. Boersma, B. Poppe

• Hyperbolic meteoroid orbits from meteor observation and interstellar meteoroids
  S. Ďurišová, M. Hajduková

• Updates in digital meteor spectroscopy
  M. Šegon, V. Vojáček, J. Borovička

• All-sky astrometry and spectroscopy in parallel
  F. Bettonvil

• Preparing for multi-modal measurements of meteors, part 1: AllSky7 and EISCAT_3D
  D. Kastinen, J. Kero, M. Gritsevich