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Kirkwood Gap Facts for Kids
- dumbmrblah 1y agoWhat a great website, didn’t realize it existed. I don’t particularly care about kirkwood gaps but it’s nice to know there is an alternative to google search for kids.
- internet_points 1y agounfortunately it fails on the one thing my kid searches for https://www.kiddle.co/i.php?q=coloring+page+moana#gsc.tab=1&gsc.q=coloring%20page%20moana&gsc.page=1 https://www.kiddle.co/i.php?q=coloring+page+moana#gsc.tab=1&... (but I do realize "kid-friendly search engine" is a huge challenge and applaud the effort)
- Zee2 1y agoThe fact that the first ad on the page (for me) is a scam for "Free Robux!" is hilarious.
- ddahlen 1y agoI made a 3D visualization of this a few weeks ago: https://dahlend.github.io/the_belt.html https://dahlend.github.io/the_belt.html This includes about 1.3 million known asteroids (most of the known ones), so the page is like 45mb. Consider yourself warned. This is a plot of semi major axis, orbital eccentricity, and inclination of the orbit. The blobs are collisional groups, where a bigger rock(s) got smashed into 'families' of asteroids. Color is by the absolute magnitude H, which is a normalized, log scaled, brightness measurement. Typically smaller H means larger object. You can see the Kirkwood gaps clearly along one axis, but as you move around you can see more complex orbital resonances. These resonances pump energy into or out of the orbit of the asteroid, causing them to leave the resonance after some time, depleting the region of phase space. Source: I do solar system simulations for my PhD work.