Meteor Orientation 1998


From September to November in 1998, the guidance to observe Leonid Meteor Shower named Meteor Orientation 1998 was held at several sites in Japan.
This Orientation was originally led by AMOTA to Nippon Meteor Society (NMS). And the NMS and related associations operated it or cooperated to the regional Science Museum. Before the expected great activity of Leonids, the right information and knowledge about Leonids itself and how to observe it was required by the public who were interested.
These Orientations are held at totally 24 sites in Japan in this 1998, increased 18 sites compared with in last year 1997.

This type of Meteor Orientation has been continuously held from 1981 by AMOTA still as our contribution to the public. In this year, more visual Orientations with planetarium equipment, photoslide, VTR and CG were held. The Meteor Orientations operated or assisted by AMOTA were as below. Each ( ) means the number of participants.

1. Ibaraki area (34)
Location : Ibaraki Pref. Southern Lifelong Study Center, Tsuchiura
Date : 18th October
promoted by NMS, cooperated by AMOTA
More than 30 number of public were joined, by whom the orientation was well received.

2. Chiba area (80)
Location : Chiba-City Folk Museum, Chiba
Date : 31st October
promoted by Chiba-City Folk Museum, cooperated by AMOTA
The exhibition named " The night of Leonids" had been also held from 29th Oct. to 29th November in the same museum and was also assisted by AMOTA.

3. Tokyo Area (200)
Location : Suginami Ward Science Educational Center, Tokyo
Date : 31st October
promoted by Suginami Ward Educational Committee and AMOTA
The planetarium was so filled to the capacity, that the 2nd Orientation was temporally held.

4. Saitama area-1 (100)
Location : Kawaguchi-City Pupils Culture Center, Kawaguchi
Date : 8th November
promoted by Kawaguchi-City Pupils Culture Center and AMOTA
The 2 stages were given to the program. The first stage was the lecture of the expected activity concerning Leonid Meteor Shower in this some years using planetarium equipment, another was the explanation and discussion for the method to observe Leonids.

5. Saitama area-2
Location : Saitama Pref. Citizen Hall, Ina-Town, Saitama
Date : 31st October
promoted by Saitama Pref. Citizen Hall, cooperated by AMOTA
The lecture on Leonids was given by Dr. Ko NAGASAWA, the Publicity Section in the National Astronomical Observatory.

6. Yokohama area (240)
Location : Yokohama-City Science Center
Date : 8th November promoted by Yokohama-City Science Center and AMOTA
300 offers were chosen from the registration offers which includes more than 400. The 2 stages were given to the program as like as Kawaguchi.

7. Atsugui area (50)
Location : Atsugui-City Science Museum for Children, Atsugui
Date : 25 th October
promoted by Atsugui-City Educational Committee, cooperated by AMOTA
There has been the same Orientation in this 3 years in Atugi. The Meteor Orientation was deeply interested.

8. Nagano area -1 (45)
Location : Ueda Creativity Museum, Ueda
Date : 19th September promoted by Ueda Creativity Museum, cooperated by AMOTA
The first Orientation at the out of Tokyo Area by AMOTA. In addition to the sky watching party, the guidance concerning Leonids was held.

9.Kanagawa area ()
Location : Aikawa, Kanagawa
Date : 14th November
promoted by Aikawa Astronomical Society, cooperated by AMOTA


The Meteor Orientations except for AMOTA related were promoted as follows.

10. Sendai area (30)
Location : Sendai-City Astronomical Observatory, Sendai
Date : 12th September

11. Nagano area -2
Location : Nagano-City Museum, Nagano
Date : 8th November

12. Nagano area -3
Location : Ohmachi-City Museum of Energy, Ohmachi
Date : 3rd October

13. Toyama area (60)
Location : Toyama-City Science Culture Center, Toyama
Date : 8th November

14. Ishikawa area (100)
Location : Ishikawa-Pref. Central Pupils Museum, Kanazawa
Date : 8th November

15. Shiga area-1 (100)
Location : Dynic Astro-Park, Taga-Town, Shiga
Date : 8th November

16. Shiga area -2 (34)
Location : Ohtsu-City Lifelong Study Center, Ohtsu
Date : 7th November

17. Mie area
Location : Ueno-City Culture Hall, Ueno
Date : 16th October

18. Osaka area (100)
Location : Sakai-City Science Museum, Sakai
Date : 23rd October

19. Gunma area (30)
Location : Niijima Gakuen High School, Annaka
Date : 24th October

20. Miyazaki area (100)
Location : Miyazaki Science Center, Miyazaki
Date : 1st November

21. Aichi area
Location : Aich-Prefc. Small and Medium Enterprise Center�CNagoya
Date : 8th November

22.Ishikawa area -2 (8)
Location : Mantenboshi-Hall�CYanagida-village, Ishikawa
Date : 1st November

23.Kyoto area-1 (100)
Location : Galeria-Hall�CKameoka
Date : 13th October

24.Kyoto area-2 (15)
Location : Rakuto Senior High Scool, Kyoto
Date : 17th October

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