The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey has begun and will obtain high quality spectroscopy of some 100000 Milky Way stars, in the field and in open clusters, down to magnitude 19, systematically covering all the major components of the Milky Way. This survey will provide the first homogeneous overview of the distributions of kinematics and

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The results for the 2011 Draconid outburst are presented. The peak flux of this meteor shower was recorded in solar longitude 195.03 (Oct. 8, 2011, at 20h00m UT). Accurate orbits for 10 high-resolution selected Draconid 2011 meteors are also given .

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Secular evolution is one of the key routes through which galaxies evolve along the Hubble sequence. Not only does the disc undergo morphological and kinematic changes, but a pre-existing classical bulge may also be dynamically changed by the secular processes driven primarily by the bar. We study the influence of a growing bar on the dynamical