Leonard Schirner

About me

I'm a researcher interested in the surfaces of asteroids. Asteroids can tell us a lot about the history of the solar system and the formation of our planets. At LTU specifically I am studying the destruction of near-Sun asteroids, these are bodies that get very close to the sun, within the orbit of mercury, and are probably destroyed due to violent, fast processes. I simulate and study these processes in a special vacuum chamber in Kiruna.