Vissiniti is the website of Margaret Murphy, an amateur planetary scientist and writer.
The site is a blend of serious science and creative exploration—planetary science, sci-fi, anything where she can weave in a circumventous route back to asteroids, comets, meteoroids, meteors and meteorites, in fact or fiction.
The subject of asteroid spectral types and taxonomies is a particular favourite but it can be more than a little tedious at times. See for yourself by reading her popular essay covering the half a century of asteroid classification systems. You will need to commit.
There’s also a movie database—the Index of Moving Pictures about Asteroid and Comet Threats—and since planetary scientists love acronyms, you can call it IMPACT.
One flew east, one flew west…recalling what another (Mc)Murphy said, “a little change never hurt, a little variety,” so you may see articles on this site on subjects apparently unrelated to planetary science and wonder what on earth they are doing here.
If you are reading this page, then this site survived the Extinction Level Event caused by Google’s 2024 search engine update that saw websites like this wiped off the planet.