Current Status of the Photographic Meteoroid Orbits Database and a Call for Contributions to a New Version |
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| Authors: | Jan Svoren Vladimir Porubcan Lubos Neslusan |
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| Institution: | (1) Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranska Lomnica, 059 60, The Slovak Republic |
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| Abstract: | A central depository for meteor orbits obtained by photographic techniques, as a part of the IAU Meteor Data Center, was moved
to the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava in 2001. The current version of the catalogue
contains data on 4581 meteor orbits obtained by 17 different stations or groups from the period 1936 to 1996. Since 1996 a
few huge campaigns were organised including very successful Leonids and Perseids. That is why we would prepare a new more
complete version of the database. The main aim of this paper is a call to the observers of meteors having new or recalculated/remeasured
data on photographic meteors to send them to the MDC, where after a check and consultations with the observer, the orbits
will be included in the database. |
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| Keywords: | Astronomical databases Photographic meteor orbits |
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