The 6th annual online meeting of the Global Meteor network took place on February 7-8, 2026.

The recording of the meeting can be viewed: https://youtu.be/yn1eu35a-54?si=lQUAj8CRo7V1Mnh5, the presentation program can be consulted below.

Schedule with the presentations

Session 1 – 2026 February 7, 16:00 – 23:00 UTC

UTC Time Topic
15:45 Optional: Presenters testing their slides with Zoom
16:00 Meeting begins (10 minutes)
16:10 Introductions (15 minutes)
16:25 Pavol Matlovič: Probing meteoroid composition through meteor spectroscopy and laboratory ablation experiments (20 + 2 mins)
16:47 Jamie Shepherd & Will Joy: The Great Scottish Bolide of July 2nd 2025 (10 + 2 mins)
16:59 Justin Domagala-Tang et al.: Automated and Improved RMS Meteor Picking (10 + 2 mins)
17:11 Break & extended question period (9 minutes)
17:20 Quanzhi Ye et al.: Asteroid-sized objects in the Taurid Resonant Swarm (15 + 2 mins)
17:37 Jürgen Rendtel et al.: Visual Meteor Observations Nowadays? (15 + 2 mins)
17:54 Regina Rudawska et al.: Submitting Data to the IAU MDC: Guidelines and Processes (10 + 2 mins)
18:06 Hervé Lamy et al.: First GMN network in Morocco (5 + 2 mins)
18:13 G.I. Kokhirova et al.: Statistical Analysis Of Meteor Observations Data In Tajikistan For The 2024 – 2025 Period (10 + 2 mins)
18:25 Meal & Questions Break (34 minutes) – breakout rooms available
19:00 Alexandru Tudorica: GMN network expansion in Romania & new software features (10 + 2 mins)
19:12 Patrick Shober et al.: The case of the missing carbonaceous chondrite: how global meteor observations resolved the mystery (15 + 2 mins)
19:29 Chloe Kadir et al.: A complete dataset of GMN fireball observations (10 + 2 mins)
19:41 Mirjana Malaric: Comet Chasers Project (5 + 2 mins)
19:48 Auriane Egal et al.: 2023 CX1: The First Complete Autopsy of a Small Asteroid (30 + 2 mins)
20:20 Group Photo
20:20 Break & extended question period (10 minutes)
20:30 ✈️ The Contrail Hour 
20:30 Emily Tracey et al.: Leveraging the Global Meteor Network for Contrail Science (15 + 2 mins)
20:47 Liam Schultz et al.: Contrail Detection and Association Methods developed by the GMN (15 + 2 mins)
21:04 Luc Busquin et al.: Contrail Detection Pipeline and RMS Updates (20 + 2 mins)
21:26 Tristan Abbott et al.: Benchmarking Forecasts for Contrail Avoidance (10 + 2 mins)
21:38 Break & extended question period (12 minutes)
21:50 Denis Vida: GMN – The Imperfect Behemoth
22:00 Denis Vida: Camera Enhancement Program
Unstructured Workshop, Q&A

Session 2 – 2026 February 8, 00:00 – 03:00 UTC

UTC Time Topic
23:50 Optional: Presenters testing their slides with Zoom
00:00 Session 2 Begins
00:05 Introductions (10 minutes)
00:15 Denis Vida: Recap of Session 1 (15 minutes)
00:30 Hadrien Devillepoix et al.: Drone-Assisted Meteorite Recovery: Fully Operational (10 + 2 mins)
00:42 Logan Cordonnier et al.: Statistical Analyses of Meteor Radio Afterglows (10 + 2 mins)
00:54 Peter Eschman: New and updated RMS images for 2026 (10 + 2 mins)
01:06 Sam Hemmelgarn et al.: Data driven physical classification of meteors using GMN data (11 min)
01:17 Group Photo, break, extended question period (13 mins)
01:30 David Rollinson: New features in FOVSkyMap (10 + 2 mins)
01:42 Yleana E. Ceballos & Masa-Yuki Yamamoto: Implementation of RMS Cameras for Multi-modal Meteor Observation at Kochi University of Technology (10 + 2 mins)
01:54 Mark McIntyre: Ongoing improvements in the GMN data solver and pipeline (11 mins)
02:05 Unstructured Workshop, Q&A

 

Previous Global Meteor Network meetings on YouTube:

Recordings of the 5th meeting 8-9 February 2025:

Recordings of the 4th meeting 24-25 February 2024:

Recordings of the 3rd meeting 25-26 February 2023:

Recordings of the 2nd meeting 19-20 February 2022:

Recordings of the 1st meeting 20 February 2021: