International Meteor Organization
Encyclopedia
The International Meteor Organization (IMO) was founded in 1988 and has several hundred members. IMO was created in response to an ever-growing need for international cooperation on amateur meteor
work. The collection of meteor observations by several methods from all around the world ensures the comprehensive study of meteor shower
s and their relation to comet
s and interplanetary dust
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IMO publishes a bimonthly journal called WGN and holds an annual International Meteor Conference (IMC) in September.
METEOR
METEOR is a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output. The metric is based on the harmonic mean of unigram precision and recall, with recall weighted higher than precision...
work. The collection of meteor observations by several methods from all around the world ensures the comprehensive study of meteor shower
Meteor shower
A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. Most meteors are smaller...
s and their relation to comet
Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...
s and interplanetary dust
Interplanetary medium
The interplanetary medium is the material which fills the solar system and through which all the larger solar system bodies such as planets, asteroids and comets move.-Composition and physical characteristics:...
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IMO publishes a bimonthly journal called WGN and holds an annual International Meteor Conference (IMC) in September.