Announcements

Current:

• IAU Colloq. 181 Dust in the Solar System and Other Planetary Systems Apr.10-14 2000 at University of Kent at Canterbury. For more information: http://www.ukc.ac.uk/physical-sciences/space or email M.L.Watts@ukc.ac.uk. Note the following deadlines: 22 January 2000 ELECTRONIC abstract submission deadline; 15 February 2000 Deadline for Registration forms. Late registration rate applies after this date. See www page for details of abstract submission, registration, local arrangements and program. (Jan. 10 posting)
• Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond Conference, Vienna, Austria 9-12 July 2000. Abstract deadline: (hard-copy submission) Feb. 25, 2000, (electronic submission) Mar. 3, 2000. For more information: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/impact2000/impact2000.2nd.html (Jan. 16 posting)
• Visual Data 1999 Leonids: A preliminary analysis of visual data on over 1/4 million meteors seen during the 1999 Leonid display, to appear shortly in the December 1999 issue of WGN, the Bimonthly Journal of the International Meteor Organization, is already available on the Organization's Web site (http://www.imo.net). Marc Gyssens,WGN, Editor-in-chief. (Jan. 10, 2000 posting)
• The XXIVth General Assembly of the IAU will be held at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, during the period August 7-18, 2000. For more information consult the IAU Bulletin 85 (sent to IAU members) or http://www.iau.org/ga24.html. (Jan. 10, 2000 posting).
• IAU Commission 22 www site moved: The IAU 22 www site has been moved to http://www.mta.ca/~rhawkes/IAU22 . We apologize for any inconvenience to those who link to our site. A redirection link will appear at the old site for the next few months.(Jan 10, 2000 posting)
• There are a limited number of extra copies of the Proceedings of the Meteoroids 1998 International Conference (held Aug 17-21 1998 in Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia) available for sale to libraries and those individuals who wish to purchase a copy. The volume contains 80 papers (invited reviews and contributed research papers), and is 405 pages in length. The main divisions of the volume are Atmospheric Interaction, Meteor Observations, Meteor Showers and Meteoroid Streams, Dynamics in Space, and Physical Studies and Meteorites. The volume is edited by W.J. Baggaley and V. Porubcan, and is published by the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The program for the conference (which lists paper titles) is still available on the www at:http://www.ta3.sk/~ne/Meteoroids98/ann3.html.
  Copies of the Meteoroids 1998 Proceedings are available for 40 US$.
  For further information and to place orders please contact:
  Dr. Vladimir Porubcan
  Astronomical Institute, SAV
  Dubravska 9
  842 28 Bratislava
  Slovak Republic
  astropor@savba.savba.sk (posted Dec. 15, 1999)
• Special session ( Aerothermochemistry Effects in Meteoric Plasmas) on meteors at the next 38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit of the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics). The meeting will be held at Reno, NV, from January 10-13, 2000. For more information pjenniskens@mail.arc.nasa.gov (July 1999 posting)

   

Archive:

• 62nd Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa 11-16 July, 1999, at the University of the Witwatersrand. Contact: Dr. Wolf Uwe Reimold, 065wur@cosmos.wits.ac.za.
• Asteroids Comets Meteors 1999 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA July 26-30, 1999. http://scorpio.tn.cornell.edu or email: acm@scorpio.tn.cornell.edu. (Registration deadline June 28, 1999).
• Meteoroids 1998 International Conference Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia at Aug. 16-22, 1998. For more information including a response form http://www.ta3.sk/~ne/Meteoroids98 (or email Vladimir Porubcan at astropor@savba.savba.sk)
• International Meteor Conference IMC '98 in Stara Lesna, High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia from August 20 to August 23, 1998. The December issue of WGN includes a registration form. The organizers can be contacted via e-mail: hvezdar@isternet.sk and information is available at http://www.imo.net/news/imc.html
• IAU Colloquium 173 Evolution and Source Regions of Asteroids and Comets, 24-28 August, 1998, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovak Republic, http://www.ta3.sk/~ne/iau173
• IAU XXVth General Assembly 2003 will be held in Sydney, Australia, August, 2003.
• Updated "Who is Who" in the IMO: http://www.imo.net/whoiswho.html

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