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Welcome !
The IAU Meteor Data Center (MDC) operates at the
Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences,
under the auspices of Division F (Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy) of the International
Astronomical Union (IAU).
The MDC is responsible for
- the designation of meteor showers, in conjunction with the Working Group on Meteor Shower
Nomenclature of IAU Commission F1 (Meteors, Meteorites, and Interplanetary Dust); it acts as a
central list of all meteor showers (Shower database)
- the efficient collection, (computation,) checking and dissemination of trajectory
observations and orbits of meteors; it acts as a central depository for meteor orbits obtained by
photographic, video and radar techniques (Orbital database)
The points of contact for reporting:
- the discovery of a new or for reports of known meteor showers:
mdc_showers [at] ta3.sk
- the new measurements of meteor orbits and trajectories:
mdc_orbits [at] ta3.sk
The IAU Meteor Data Center team:
- Shower Database: Mária Hajduková (Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak
Republic) and Regina Rudawska (RHEA group/ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands).
- Orbital Database: Luboš Neslušan, Marian Jakubík
, Ján Svoreň (Astronomical
Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranská Lomnica, Slovak Republic).
Since its beginning, the IAU MDC database has been maintained on an unpaid voluntary basis.
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