(meteorobs) WGN Vol. 37, No. 1

[Javor Kac]

WGN - Journal of the International Meteor Organization
Vol. 37, No. 1, February 2009, pp. 1-50

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The Journal contents are below.

Editorial
  Javor Kac .......................................................... 1

Janus
  Chris Trayner ...................................................... 1

Meteor Beliefs Project returns to WGN
  Alastair McBeath and Andrei Dorian Gheorghe ........................ 2

Vladimr Znojil (1941-2008)
  Petr Pravec ........................................................ 3

From the Treasurer - Electronic Shop and Recent Publications
  Marc Gyssens ....................................................... 4

International Meteor Conference 2009 - September 24-27, Porec,
Croatia
  Korado Korlevic and Zeljko Andreic ................................. 5

Financial support for IMC 2009 participants
  Juergen Rendtel and Marc Gyssens ................................... 8

Call for Future IMCs
  Juergen Rendtel and Marc Gyssens ................................... 8

Bolides and Meteorite Falls International Conference - May 10-15,
2009, Prague, Czech Republic
  communicated by Jiri Borovicka and Pavel Spurny ................... 10

WGN Questionnaire: The Results
  Cis Verbeeck ...................................................... 11

On how to report new meteor showers
  Peter Jenniskens, Tadeusz J. Jopek, Juergen Rendtel, Vladimir
Porubcan, Pavel Spurny, Jack Baggaley, Shinsuke Abe, and Robert
Hawkes .............................................................. 19

Report from the ISSI team meeting ``A Virtual Observatory for
meteoroids''
  Detlef Koschny et al.Detlef Koschny, Rainer Arlt, Geert Barentsen,
Prakash Atreya, Joachim Flohrer, Tadeusz Jopek, Andre Knoefel,
Pavel Koten, Hartwig Lueüthen, Jonathan Mc Auliffe, Juergen
Oberst, Juraj Toth, Jeremie Vaubaillon, Robert Weryk, and Mariusz
Wisniewski .......................................................... 21

A new meteor detection processing approach for observations collected
by the Croatian Meteor Network (CMN)
  Peter Gural and Damir Segon ....................................... 28

A telescopic meteor observed during the Metis campaign
  Scott Degenhardt and Peter Gural .................................. 33

Photographic fireball observations from La Paz
  Hans Salm ......................................................... 37

Results of the IMO Video Meteor Network - November 2008
  Sirko Molau and Javor Kac ......................................... 39

Results of the IMO Video Meteor Network - December 2008
  Sirko Molau and Javor Kac ......................................... 43

Meteor Beliefs Project: More Belarussian meteor folklore
  Tsimafei Avilin ................................................... 48


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Writing for WGN
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Javor Kac
Editor-in-Chief
WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization