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| DescriptionKirkwood Gaps.svg |
English: This histogram clearly shows the primary Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid main-belt. These gaps (labeled "3:1", "5:2", "7:3", "2:1") are caused by mean-motion resonances between an asteroid and Jupiter. For example, the 3:1 Kirkwood gap is located where the ratio of an asteroid's orbital period to that of Jupiter is 3/1 (the asteroid completes 3 orbits for every 1 orbit of Jupiter). The effect of these mean-motion resonances is a change in the asteroid's orbital elements (particularly semimajor axis) sufficient to create these gaps in semimajor axis space.
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| Source | http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/images/ast_histo.ps |
| Author | based on plot by Alan Chamberlain, JPL/Caltech |
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| current | 17:58, 6 March 2023 | | 792 × 612 (79 KB) | Aspere | File uploaded using svgtranslate tool (https://svgtranslate.toolforge.org/). Added translation for ko. |
| 01:48, 13 December 2016 |  | 792 × 612 (58 KB) | Rfassbind | colorized MBA division (inner, middle, outer) at 2.5 and 2.82 AU | |
| 16:24, 11 May 2012 |  | 792 × 612 (60 KB) | Autiwa | Suppression of one of the two paths (one was used for the line, and the other for the surface). Improving a bit the size of the image. | |
| 20:57, 4 August 2009 |  | 792 × 612 (112 KB) | Quibik | Further optimized. | |
| 19:34, 4 August 2009 |  | 792 × 612 (170 KB) | Quibik | Combined vertical bars into single path, thus reducing file size. Made SVG-standard compliant. | |
| 01:14, 25 January 2009 |  | 792 × 612 (544 KB) | Jtratcliff | {{Information |Description={{en|1=This histogram clearly shows the primary Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid main-belt. These gaps (labeled "3:1", "5:2", "7:3", "2:1") are caused by mean-motion resonances between an asteroid and Jupiter. For example, the 3:1 |
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