Current status: gardening with a view. Had to harvest ~1/4 of my onions early because somebody has a habit of trampling on them in search of the ball…

Had a fun time being a part of this paper where we used a combination of SPH and N-body simulations to explore how asteroid satellites form from collisions. arxiv.org/abs/2505.03325

2 hours and 4 minutes to the closest approach of Lucy with #asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson [DJ]. ↔️ current distance to DJ: 100 thousand km ☀️ current phase angle: 13.98° 🪨 estimated size of DJ on L'LORRI camera: 6-10 pixels ▶️ www.whereIsLucy.space #PlanetSci #SciComm

In Japan for the next 10 days for a few exciting meetings. Today and tomorrow, I am at JAXA’s ISAS for a Hayabusa2# science team meeting. What a great excuse to visit when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom!

Working up here at the Obervatoire de la Côte d'Azur, #Nice today and gave a talk on #Comet activity modelling this morning #PlanetSci. Thanks to everyone who came and thanks very much to @harrisonagrusa.bsky.social for hosting me!

Playing around with some renderings of DART impact ejecta simulations. It’s amazing what you can do with @matplotlib.org and @reboundbot.bsky.social !

Happy to announce that I’ve been selected as a participating scientist on NASA’s Lucy mission. I can’t wait to join the team and explore the Trojans! science.nasa.gov/uncategorize...

New (to me) handmade table and chairs found at a flea market in Nice. Restoring it now with some beeswax. €100 and will probably outlive me. This room is finally coming together!

I decided it would be a good idea to procrastinate on job applications and play some Kerbal Space Program instead. Using a mod to play with a 1/9 scale real solar system, did a nice Voyager style mission. Here are my Jupiter and Neptune/Triton flybys :)

I found a fun Easter egg in For All Mankind. They used real DART papers as props for a scene related to altering the orbit of an asteroid! On the left is Rivkin et al. 2021 and on the right is Hirabayashi et al. 2022.