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From the content of the January 2021 issue:

Ursids (URS#015) major or minor shower, and another outburst in 2020?
Paul Roggemans………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1

Global Meteor Network and the 2020 Ursid return
Paul Roggemans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 15

Ursids 2020 with Worldwide Radio Meteor Observations
Hiroshi Ogawa, Hirofumi Sugimoto…………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 19

Return of Volantid meteor shower, expected to peak on New Year’s Eve
Peter Jenniskens…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 22

The very successful Lyrids 2020
Koen Miskotte………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 24

Perseids 2020 revisited
Koen Miskotte………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 29

The proper name for AUD (#197) is ZDR
Masahiro Koseki…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 31

Comparison of two meteor trajectory solvers on the 2020 Perseid shower
Eugene J. Mroz, Denis Vida, Paul Roggemans……………………………………………………………………………………………. 39

Global Meteor Network status report
Paul Roggemans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 44

October 2020 report CAMS BeNeLux
Paul Roggemans…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 50

September observations of the CCY (#757), SPE (#208) and STA (#002) from Norway
Kai Gaarder…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 52

October observations from Norway
Kai Gaarder…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 54

November 2020 observations from Norway
Kai Gaarder…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 59

Observations December 6–8 in Belarus
Ivan Sergei, Yuri Goryachko……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 63

Radio meteors October 2020
Felix Verbelen………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 67

Radio meteors November 2020
Felix Verbelen………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 73

Earth grazing meteoroid recorded by GMN above the Czech Republic and Germany
Milan Kalina………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 81

Grazing meteor over Belarus and Poland on November 1, 2020
Ivan Sergei, Yuri Goryachko, Zbigniew Tymiński………………………………………………………………………………………. 84

Possible meteorite fall in Austria
Gábor Kővágó……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 87

Fireball events over Spain in November 2020
José María Madiedo………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 90