(meteorobs) WGN

Rainer Arlt rarlt at aip.de
Sun Jan 14 16:40:55 EST 2007


On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 12:50:17PM -0500, meteors at eclipse.net wrote:
> I think I heard this once but forgot.
> 
> What is WGN the acronym for?
> 
> HALWA
> 
> 
> > WGN - Journal of the International Meteor Organization
> >
> > The new issue of this Journal is now in print. It has been posted;
> > subscribers should receive it soon.



Originally the journal was the local journal
of the Belgian work group for meteors. The
journal was called Werkgroepnieuws, which is
work group news. Since the journal was inter-
nationally known already, the abbreviation of
the name was kept for the journal of the IMO.

Best regards,
Rainer




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