Wonders of Nature Meteors This part of the website is dedicated to observing meteors. It was my first and most extensively experienced part of astronomy. Small grains of dust originating from comets and entering the Earth atmosphere at an altitude of about 100 kilometers. Those small particles burned up in just a split of a second but sometimes a very bright one appears, called a fireball. Such nice meteors have long lasting trains for many seconds. My main interest is photographing these particles. Meteor observation campaigns and expeditions all are in collaboration with the Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) Asteroid 2008-TC3 Leonids 1998 Perseids 1993 Geminids 1990 Leonids 2002 Leonids 2001 Leonids 1999 Leonids 1995 On 7 october Asteroid 2008 TC3 entered the Earth atmosphere above the Nubian desert of Sudan and we did go there! eRadiant, the journal of the Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) International Meteor Organisation (IMO) - International Meteor Conferences (IMC) 2009: Asteroid 2008 TC3 - conference - recovery - site seeing - Almahata Sitta, Nubian Desert, Sudan 2007: Geminids, Public Observatory Halley, Heesch, Netherlands (Video by Roy Keeris) 2006: Leonids, Baza, Andalucia, Spain "crash" Expedition 2004: Geminids, Kahler Asten, Winterberg, Germany and some images of this very succesful Geminids 2004 Expedition 2004: Perseids, Netherlands, Germany, Romania and some images of the Perseids 2004 Expedition to Darmanesti and Corbasca, Romania (Video from Darmanesti and Video from Corbasca) 2003: Quadrantids, several locations in the Netherlands 2002: Leonids, Rodalquilar, Andalucia and a lot of fine images of this late Leonids 2002 Expedition to Otura and Rodalquilar, Andalucia, Spain 2002: Perseids, several locations in the Netherlands 2001: Geminids, several locations over Belgium and the Netherlands 2001: Leonids, Xining, China and some images of this second Sino-Dutch Leonids Expedition 2001 in Xinglong, Miyun and PanShan in China 2001: Lyrids, Visual observations and Lyrids 2001, Photographic observations in The Netherlands and Spain 2000: Ursids, many locations in the Netherlands and elsewhere 2000: Leonids, The Netherlands and Spain and some images of the Leonids 2000 Expedition in the Houdringebos, De Bilt, the Netherlands 2000: Perseids, many locations in the Netherlands 1999: Leonids, Xálo, Spain and some images of this Leonids 1999 Expedition to Xalo, Spain 1999: Perseids, many locations all over Europe 1998: Leonids, Delingha, China and some images of this extraordinairy Sino-Dutch Leonids 1998 Expedition and two films compiled by Romke Schievink: Leonids 1998 in China, part 1 and Leonids 1998 in China, part 2 1998: Draconids, visual and radio-observations from several locations over the Netherlands 1997: Perseids, many locations all over the Netherlands 1996: Geminids, many locations all over the Netherlands 1996: Leonids, Sexbierum, the Netherlands and Woignarue, France 1996: Perseids, many locations in the Netherlands and in Germany 1996: Lyrids, Biddinghuizen, Leiden, Benningbroek, the Netherlands 1995: Alfa Monocerotids, Alcudia de Guadix, Andalucia 1995: Leonids, Alcudia de Guadix, Andalucia and some images of this fine Leonids 1995 Expedition to Andalucia, Spain 1995: Perseids, Varsseveld, Rha, Oostkapelle, Biddinghuizen, the Netherlands 1993: Perseids, Rognes, Provence and some images of this very first Perseids 1993 Expedition to Rognes, Provence, France 1992: Perseids, Basel, Germany 1990: Geminids, Lardiers, Provence - the very first extremely succesful international multi-station Geminid expedition! External Links Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) KNVWS Werkgroep Meteoren VVS Werkgroep Meteoren All-Sky, Dutch fireball patrols by Peter van Leuteren Koen Miskotte Marco Langbroek Klaas Jobse Peter van Leuteren Remco Scheepmaker Robert Haas Meteoracle by Daniel van Os Nature Weather Atmosphere Astronomy Disclaimer & Contact