International Meteor Conference - September 25th/26th, 2021

NOW ONLINE

The International Meteor Organization organizes a two-day online IMC on Saturday September 25th and Sunday September 26th, 2021. In order to register for attendance of the online IMC, please send an e-mail to imc2021@imo.net before September 1st, 00h UT, mentioning your name, affiliation and country.

The online IMC 2021 will use the free Zoom software. Connection details will be communicated in due time.

To accommodate participants from Asia, Australia and New Zealand, the schedule on September 25th is from 6:00 UT till 15:00 UT. The September 26th schedule is from 10:00 UT until 19:00 UT, to allow participants from America to join part of the conference during daytime hours.

IMO’s General Assembly Meeting will take place on September 25th, 14:00-15:00 UT and is open to all interested persons.

In case you want to present a talk, please provide the author list, title, and abstract. Talks will be given by PDF/PPTs via Zoom and are 15 minutes by default, plus 5 minutes for questions. Abstracts must be submitted before July 1st, 00h UT.

The Conference Proceedings will be published in a special section of our journal WGN. Proceedings papers should be submitted to WGN before October 20th, but we encourage you to submit your paper before the start of the conference if possible (contact: wgn@imo.net - see submission instructions).

Further details will be published soon.

We hope to meet you at the online IMC on September 25th-26th!
The IMO Council and the IMC 2021 SOC

Program - Saturday, 25 September 2021

Times are in UT

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06:00-06:15
Opening Talk and Instructions
Cis Verbeeck
SESSION 1 - Radio and radar observations
Session Chair: Juraj Tóth
06:15-06:35
Faint meteor observation by DIMS and laboratory meteor spectroscopy
Shinsuke Abe et al.
06:35-06:55
Simultaneous observation of faint meteor using MU radar and Tomo-e Gozen Schmidt telescope
Kouki Nonaka, Kohei Morita, Shinsuke Abe
06:55-07:15
Broadband radio emission from meteor trails observed with LOFAR
Tammo Jan Dijkema et al.
SESSION 2 - Fireballs and Meteorite Falls I/II
Session Chair: Juraj Tóth
07:20-07:40
Observing the Hayabusa-2 capsule re-entry over Australia
Eleanor Sansom, Masa-Yuki Yamamoto, et al.
07:40-08:00
Break
08:00-08:20
[CANCELLED] Semi-automated meteorite recovery with drones, machine learning and mixed reality
Seamus L. Anderson
08:20-08:40
Tests with a simple ablation and dark flight calculator
Felix Bettonvil, Dušan Bettonvil
08:40-09:00
AMOS update and status
Juraj Toth et al.
09:00-09:20
FRIPON network last results and data access
Francois Colas and the FRIPON team
09:20-09:40
Minimizing biases of luminous efficiency determinations based on FRIPON data
Theresa Ott et al.
09:40-09:45
Group photo... turn your camera on!
09:45-11:20
Lunch Break
SESSION 3 - Meteoroid Streams and Meteor Showers
Session Chair: Ákos Kereszturi
11:20-11:40
Observations (2016--2020) of the Geminids from different regions of Russia by an amateur astronomer
Filipp Romanov
11:40-12:00
Calibration of visual meteor observations
Jürgen Rendtel, Ralf Koschack
12:00-12:20
Status of the IAU Meteor Data Center
Regina Rudawska et al.
12:20-12:50
Hunting for short-duration meteor showers
Sirko Molau
12:50-13:10
From D-criterion to chaos map
Ariane Courtot, Jérémie Vaubaillon, Marc Fouchard
SESSION 4 - Optical Observations and Lunar Impacts I/II
Session Chair: Ákos Kereszturi
13:10-13:30
MoMet - mobile meteor observation
Da Fonseca et al.
13:30-13:50
Meteor observation with the DIMS project: sensor calibration and first results
Dario Barghini et al.
 
13:50-14:00
Concluding Remarks of day 1
14:00-15:00
IMO General Assembly (Chair: Cis Verbeeck)

Sunday, 26 September 2021

10:00-10:10
Opening & Notes from day 1
Cis Verbeeck
SESSION 5 - Space & Balloon Based Observations
Session Chair: Detlef Koschny
10:10-10:30
A Cubesat Mission dedicated to the detection of meteors and space debris
Nicolas Rambaux et al.
10:30-10:50
Meteorix - a new processing chain for real-time detection and tracking of meteors from space
Maxime Millet et al.
10:50-11:10
MALBEC: feasibility of double-stratospheric balloon observations
Jérémie Vaubaillon et al.
SESSION 6 - Meteors & Atmosphere
Session Chair: Detlef Koschny
11:10-11:30
Micrometeorites trajectories in the atmosphere from fireball fragmentations
Karol Havrila, Juraj Tóth, Martin Baláž
11:30-11:50
Collection of micrometeorites in the stratosphere
Justína Nováková et al.
11:50-11:55
Group photo... turn your camera on!
11:55-12:20
Break
12:20-12:50
Reconstructing meteoroid trajectories using BRAMS data
Hervé Lamy & BRAMS team
12:50-13:10
A survey of hydrogen emission in meteors
Adriana Pisarčíková, Pavol Matlovič, Juraj Toth
13:10-13:30
Spectral calibration of meteors: on the elevation-dependent atmospheric correction
Salvatore Vicinanza et al.
13:30-13:50
Recent results from the Kilwinning Spectroscopic Survey for Meteors
Bill Ward
13:50-14:10
Transverse scatter reflection coefficients from different plasma distributions
Gunter Stober et al.
14:10-14:30
Estimating luminous efficiency from simultaneous radar-optical measurements of shower meteors
Peter G. Brown et al.
14:30-15:00
Break
SESSION 7 - Optical Observations and Lunar Impacts I/II
Session Chair: Felix Bettonvil
15:00-15:20
Lunar impact flashes - almost like meteors
Detlef Koschny
15:20-15:40
Comparison of atmospheric entry models of meteoroids
Martin Baláž
15:40-16:00
Detection of meteors in shuttered photography with AI and mathematical morphology
Maya El Gemayel et al.
16:00-16:20
Subspace based meteor detection using SLIDE
Pete Gural
16:20-16:50
Break
SESSION 8 - Fireballs and meteorite falls II/II
Session Chair: Felix Bettonvil
16:50-17:10
What just happened? Facilitating cooperation between fireball networks
Jim Rowe
17:10-17:30
Fireball Report: two new APIs to share your camera observations
Vincent Perlerin, Mike Hankey, Robert Lunsford
17:30-17:50
AllSky7 Fireball Network Europe
Sirko Molau and Mike Hankey
17:50-18:10
Trajectory, photometry, and fragmentation of the Winchcombe meteorite fall reconstructed using a multi-network data set
Denis Vida et al.
SESSION 9 - Education & Public Outreach
Session Chair: Felix Bettonvil
18:10-18:30
MOMSTER - meteor education kit as a resource for STEAM teachers in secondary schools
Stijn Calders et al.
18:30-18:50
The fruits of failure, frustration and fortune
Peter Slansky
18:50-19:00
Closing of the IMC 2021: Free drink (bring your own beverages!)