Current status of the IAU MDC Meteor Showers Database
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2014
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
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During the General Assembly of the IAU in Beijing in 2012, at the business
meeting of Commission 22 the list of 31 newly established showers was approved and next o cially accepted by the IAU. As a result, at the end of2013, the list of all established showers contained 95 items. The IAU MDC Working List included 460 meteor showers, among them 95 had pro tempore status. The List of Shower Groups contained 24 complexes, three of them had established status. Jointly, the IAU MDC shower database contained data of 579 showers.
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established meteor showers, IAU MDC, meteor database, meteor showers nomenclature
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Meteoroids 2013, Proceedings of the Astronomical Conference, held at A.M. University, Pozna n, Poland, Aug. 26-30, 2013, eds Jopek T.J.,Rietmeijer F.J.M., Watanabe J., Williams I.P., Adam Mickiewicz University Press in Pozna n, pp 353-364
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SERIES PHYSICS NO. 86;
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0554-825X