International Meteor Conference 2009

14:00 - 19:00 Arrival of participants
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 24:00 Arrival of late participants

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 09:30 Opening and welcome speech
09:30 -> 11:00 Session 1: Dynamics of meteoroids

Chairman: Rainer Arlt
09:30 - 10:00 Dejan Vinkovic: The dawn of interplanetary dust - the terrestrial region of protoplanetary disks
10:00 - 10:20 David Asher: Recent shower calculations
10:20 - 10:40 Cofee Break
10:40 - 11:00 Felix Bettonvil: Sinusoidal velocity measurements
11:00 - 11:20 Galina Ryabova: Numerical model of the Geminid meteoroid stream: preliminary results

11:20 -> 12:00 Session 2: Visual observations

Chairman: Nikola Biliskov
11:20 - 11:40 Vilena Velikic: Comparative Analyses of visual and video observation of Perseid Meteor Shower in 2008
11:40 - 12:00 Javor Kac and Mitja Govedic: A July 28, 2009 fireball spectrum

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
14:00 Group photo
14:30 -> 16:00 - Session 3: Video and other observations

Chairman: Javor Kac
14:30 - 14:50 Zeljko Andreic, Damir Segon and Korado Korlevic: Second year of croatian meteor network [PDF 3MB]
14:50 - 15:10 Pavel Zigo: Meteor observations with BLM forward scatter radar
15:10 - 15:30 Jean-Louis Rault: Searching for ELF/VLF meteor signature [PDF 12MB]
15:30 - 15:50 Cofee Break
15:50 - 16:10 Geert Barentsen: Astrometric precision requirements for orbit determination [PDF 2MB]
16:10 - 16:40 Sirko Molau: 10 Years IMO Video Meteor Network: Data Set and Analysis Procedure [PDF 2MB]
16:40 - 17:10 Juergen Rendtel: 10 Years IMO Video Meteor Network: Impact on working lists

17:15 -> 18:00 - Poster session

P1: Antal Igaz: Meteor Work and Plans in Hungary
P2: Zeljko Andreic, Korado Korlevic and Damir Segon: Second year of croatian meteor network (working title)
P3: VSA meteor group
P4: Natalia Barri: Interaction of meteoroid's fragments in the Earth atmosphere
P5: Valentin Grigore: Meteor observations and the light pollution
P6: Alastair McBeath and Andrei Dorian Gheorghe: Musical Meteors
P7: Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Alastair McBeath: Parents of Meteors
P8: Andrei Dorian Gheorghe: International Summer Meteor Poetry 2009
P9: Alvaro Garcia: Automatic detection of metor traces in CCD frames

18:00 -> 19:00 - Session 4: Last minute contributions

Chairman: Nikola Biliskov
18:00 - 18:20 Radek Poleski: Integration of mean orbits of meteoroid streams [PDF 0.7MB]
18:20 - 18:40 Przemyslaw Zoladek: The 2009 Persedis photographic results [PDF 31MB]
18:40 - 19:00 Mariusz Wisniewski: Koscierzyna fireball

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 21:30 General Assembly of the International Meteor Organization
21:30 - 22:00 Valentin Grigore: Astronomical picture show

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 -> 10:30 - Session 5: Fireball network and special observations

Chairman: Zeljko Andreic
09:00 - 09:30 Korado Korlevic: Tunguska Event
09:30 - 10:00 Nikola Biliskov: History of meteor astronomy in Croatia
10:00 - 10:20 Arnold Gucsik: Terrestrial meteorite craters and their projectile types [PDF 3MB]
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break

10:40 -> 12:00 - Session 6: Meteor analysis

Chairman: Zeljko Andreic
10:40 - 11:00 Cis Verbeeck, Meteoroid flux densities from radio observations: the latest developments [PDF 5MB]
11:00 - 11:20 Valentin Grigore: Meteor observations and the light pollution
11:20 - 11:40 Natalia Barri: Interaction of meteoroid's fragments in the Earth atmosphere [PDF 0.3MB]
11:40 - 12:00 Rainer Arlt: Meteor science: where to go? [PDF 3MB]

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 18:00 Conference trip around Istria
20:00 - 22:00 Closing dinner

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 12:00 Informal socalizing and departure of some participants
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - Departure of participants