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| Keywords: Kirkwood-gaps-as-disk.png 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 en wikipedia Quadell CommonsHelper 2006-03-31 Mdf wikipedia en Mdf original upload log page en wikipedia Kirkwood-gaps-as-disk png 2006-03-31 20 07 Mdf 2560×2400× 111295 bytes <nowiki>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</nowiki> Kirkwood gap | ||||
