Category: Reports
Global Meteor Network report 2024
Paul Roggemans, Peter Campbell-Burns, Milan Kalina, Mark McIntyre, James M. Scott, Damir Šegon,...
Read MoreJanuary 2025 CARMELO report
Mariasole Maglione (Gruppo Astrofili Vicentini) Lorenzo Barbieri (CARMELO network and AAB: Associazione Astrofili Bolognesi) Introduction January opened with the peak of the Quadrantids, which is the main and dominant shower for...
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Report on the sightings of a fireball over the skies of Matanzas and western Cuba
On October 31, 2024, between 7h11m p.m. and 7h13m p.m., a luminous phenomenon was reported in the skies of western Cuba, primarily from Matanzas province. The event was marked by a rapidly distorting smoke trail, exhibiting characteristics consistent with a high-altitude bolide crossing. This report analyzes eyewitness accounts, rules out alternative explanations, and examines preliminary implications of the event.
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A small Draconid outburst on October 8, 2024
Introduction The Draconids are well-known from the large meteor storms of 1933 and 1946. The...
Read MoreA fireball with orbit beyond Saturn
Ventsislav Bodakov Stellar Society, Bulgaria Abstract: At 23h58m UTC on 2024, November 19 a bright fireball was observed over Bulgaria by three Global Meteor Network cameras. The trajectory and orbit were computed. The orbit is...
Read MoreDecember 2024 report CAMS-BeNeLux
Abstract: A summary of the activity of the CAMS-BeNeLux network during the month of December 2023 is presented. This month we collected a total of 24353 meteors resulting in 3176 orbits. Introduction In December the Earth...
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The Interesting Perseids of 2024: An Analysis of the Visual Observations
Introduction The first quarter moon on August 12 meant that the Perseid maximum would be well...
Read MoreDecember 2024 CARMELO report
Mariasole Maglione (Gruppo Astrofili Vicentini) Lorenzo Barbieri (CARMELO network and AAB: Associazione Astrofili Bolognesi) Introduction December is the month of the Geminids (GEM), a very unusual shower because it originated...
Read MoreRadio meteors December 2024
Abstract: An overview of the radio observations during December 2024 is given. The graphs show both the daily totals (Figure 1) and the hourly numbers (Figure 2) of “all” reflections counted automatically, and of manually...
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Autumn meteor and aurora observations from Ermelo and Texel in the Netherlands
IntroductionThe second half of September, little could be observed due to moonlight and bad...
Read MoreNovember 2024 report CAMS-BeNeLux
Abstract: A summary of the activity of the CAMS-BeNeLux network during the month of November 2024 is presented. This month we collected a total of 22460 multi-station meteors resulting in 7010 orbits. Introduction In...
Read MoreA short report of news in the IAU Meteor Data Center in 2024
by L. Neslušan, R. Rudawska, M. Hajduková, M. Jakubík, S. Durišová and T. J. Jopek Abstract: During 2023, the IAU Meteor Data Center team went on an effort to upgrade the databases which it maintains and improved its website. In...
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January 2025
