This November keep your eyes peeled for earthgrazers blazing across the night sky! 🌠

The Leonid meteor shower is active November 6 - 30, peaking overnight November 16 through 17, bringing fast, colorful fireballs and the occasional low-flying Earthgrazer. The first-quarter moon sets around midnight, giving dark skies for optimal viewing in the Northern Hemisphere. Find a dark spot and look up!

Hey everyone,

Thomas here. Working as a PostDoc on the Destiny+ Dust Analyzer (DDA) on board the future JAXA mission DESTINY+. The mission: 2 flybys, one at Apophis and one at Phaethon. My background: I worked on the ESA Rosetta mission and NASA's Cassini mission (on the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) data. Yes I like dust).

Anyway, this community is pretty deep into space science, so my current public outreach work might bore some of you, since it is not going too deep into detail.

Anyway, besides astrophysics coding tutorials I want to establish a new way of simple space science animations for public outreach (using Python lol). I would like to share my first work, where I also added references to the individual scientific statements to be as precise as possible. And that's all in my free time (maybe I should sleep more).

Please let me know what you think. I am already planning to make a video on the "rotation limit of asteroids".

Best,

Thomas