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Wann Sie Kirkwood Gaps 3D Explorer
Use this explorer when you want to see how Jupiter resonances carve the asteroid belt, and skip it when you want the belt as a whole or the Trojan swarms.
- Classroom demos of orbital resonance and the Kirkwood gaps
- Showing why gaps fall at simple integer ratios with Jupiter
- Connecting the gaps to near-Earth asteroid sources
This is an educational visualization - the gaps are dips in orbital size, drawn as rings; not to scale.
Walk the controls in the step-by-step guide, or compare options in vs alternatives. Open the Kirkwood Gaps 3D Explorer.
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