Meteor showers from space
Hi, I built this and want to share some background:<p>Each data point corresponds directly to a real meteor entry into the Earth's atmosphere recorded by NASA CAMS (<a href="http://cams.seti.org" rel="nofollow">http://cams.seti.org</a>). Using this network of cameras, we can capture enough information about a meteor to compute its orbit around the sun. That means each particle has unique orbital parameters that accurately reflect a former meteorite in space.<p>In order to visualize the cloud, the epoch of these orbits is randomized. In other words, each particle begins at a random location in its orbit. This is done so the visualization can be continuous rather than only showing a clump of meteors from ~2012-2018.<p>Open source here: <a href="https://github.com/typpo/showers" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/typpo/showers</a>