When to Use Asteroid Belt 3D Explorer - Best Sessions and Limits
Open the Asteroid Belt 3D Explorer when you need a classroom or curiosity pass over the main belt between Mars and Jupiter - Kirkwood gap rings, a Ceres highlight, and belt mass near 3% of the Moon - without pretending the scene is an N-body model.
A five-minute classroom demo
A five-minute classroom demo starts when you open Asteroid Belt 3D Explorer, press Show Kirkwood gaps, and pause spin so students see empties near 2.50, 2.82, and 2.95 AU - faster than a flat textbook figure alone.
Ceres and mass context
Ceres and mass context stay readable when Highlight Ceres stays on while the panel lists about 940 km diameter and belt mass roughly 3% of the Moon. Particle count and sizes are compressed for the browser, so the swarm is a structure sketch, not every named asteroid or NEO inventory.
Sessions Asteroid Belt 3D Explorer does not fit
Sessions Asteroid Belt 3D Explorer does not fit are planet-only tours, comet tails on an eccentric ellipse, or Moon spin-orbit locking. Use Solar System 3D Explorer, Comet Orbit 3D Explorer, or Tidal Locking 3D Explorer instead. The belt page also needs WebGL in the browser and will not place live ephemeris positions for tonight.
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