When to Use Asteroid Belt 3D Explorer - Best Sessions and Limits
The Asteroid Belt 3D Explorer fits classroom demos of the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, short curiosity breaks on Kirkwood gaps, and literacy around Ceres size versus belt mass. It is an educational structure visualization - not an N-body model - so a few session types need another tool.
A five-minute classroom demo
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
Keep Highlight Ceres on while reading about 940 km diameter and belt mass roughly 3% of the Moon in the panel table.
Sessions it does not fit
These sessions do not fit Asteroid Belt 3D Explorer: any time you need only the eight planets, comet tails, or tidal locking of the Moon. Use Solar System 3D Explorer, Tidal Locking 3D Explorer, or wait for a dedicated comet page instead. It also needs WebGL in the browser.
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