File:Kirkwood-gaps-as-disk.png
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English: This is a plot of a*cos(node + peri), a*sin(node + peri) for the Minor Planet Centre's MPCORB.DAT table of asteroid elements as of 2006-03-30. It is a re-creation of fig 9.27 in Murray and Dermott's Solar System Dynamics, p. 456.
It is not a plot of individual asteroid positions, but a rendering of quantities derived from the osculating elements in the aforementioned table. The famous Kirkwood Gaps are clearly visible, as is a clear bias towards the longitude of Jupiter's perihelion (which points to the right and a bit up in this view). Please click on the full resolution image and scroll around to perceive the radial gaps and clustering better, as well as a better perception of the increased density of points to the right of the plot. |
| Date | 31 March 2006 (original upload date) |
| Source | Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Quadell using CommonsHelper. |
| Author | Mdf at English Wikipedia |
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- 2006-03-31 20:07 Mdf 2560×2400× (111295 bytes) This is a plot of a*cos(node + peri), a*sin(node + peri) for the Minor Planet Centre's MPCORB.DAT table of asteroid elements as of 2006-03-30. It is a re-creation of fig 9.27 in Murray and Dermott's ''Solar System Dynamics'', p. 456. '''It is not a plot
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