• Message from the organizers
• Committee & Contacts
• Scientific Topics
• Program
• Registered participants
• Photos from the conference

Scientific Topics

• observation of bolides and superbolides (optical, acoustic, space-borne, radar)
• interaction of large meteoroids with the atmosphere (ablation, fragmentation, deceleration, radiation etc. - observations and models); satellite re-entries
• derivation of meteoroid properties from bolide observations, classification of meteoroids
• meteorite dark flight, impact, strewn fields, craters
• physical properties of meteorites (density, porosity, strength, fusion crust)
• meteorite and meteoroid flux, impact hazard
• meteorite delivery to the Earth, sources of meteorites (comets as well?)
• existence of meteorite streams
• legal aspects of meteorite recovery and collection
• meteorites on other planets
• observation of meteoroids in space (e.g. 2008 TC3)

Bolides and Meteorite Falls

International conference on the occasion of the 50^th anniversary of the Pribram meteorite fall, and the 80^th birthday of Zdenek Ceplecha

May 10-15, 2009

Hotel Michael, Prague, Czech Republic