IAU METEOR DATA CENTER

The IAU MDC is not a publication forum. The data collected in the MDC are published elsewhere. The MO MDC provides a service to collect the data in a single site so that is more easily accessible. The SD MDC serves as a central list of all meteor showers that have unique names, which is necessary in order to avoid any confusion in the literature on meteor showers... The IAU MDC was established at the General Assembly of the IAU in 1982 to compile orbital data of meteors. Its establishment was proposed by Bertil A. Lindblad from the Lund Observatory, Sweden... Since 2007, the IAU MDC has consisted of two sections, which deal with (1) the orbits of individual meteors and (2) the list of showers and their mean characteristics. Each section is maintained by an autonomous team.