Welcome on the web pages of the Meteor Data Center (MDC) of
International Astronomical Union (IAU).
The IAU MDC database has been created in purpose to provide to
the researchers interested in meteor astronomy the precise, reliable,
and complete-in-compulsory-parameters data, gained by using of various
detection techniques. The set of these data is assumed to be used
especially in the methodological studies. Because of a possibility of
comparison between the corresponding results obtained by various
authors or author teams, which is possible if all they use basically
the same data, no often upgraded of these - nominal - data is
supposed.
These pages contain the data and documentation to the photographic,
video, and sample of radio-meteor catalogs. In total,
the current version of the database contains 6 345 photographic,
3,206,547 (471,582 CAMS, 529,076 SonotaCo, 908 DMS, 1,881,847 GMN, and
323,134 EDMOND) video and 11,937,769 (8,916 Hissar, 11,048,107 SAAMER,
and 880,746 AMOR) radio-meteor orbits.
The chosen data can be printed, or downloaded (year by year)
in the PDF, Excel-table, or CSV format (the menu will appear after you
choose the catalog(s) and parameters, and click "Submit"; the chosen data
will then appear at the bottom of the page).
Or, the ZIP archive of very extended video data for a given year can also
be downloaded (CSV format is packed).
The used catalog should be cited. The list of relevant references can be found
here.
The email address to the contact point is
mdc_orbits [at] astro.skYour message will reach Luboš Neslušan, Marián Jakubík, and Ján Svoreň who maintain the orbital database.