- Kirkwood Gaps
- Empty areas in our asteroid belt.
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Kirkwood Gaps
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Kirkwood gaps — Interruptions in the distribution of asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter that appear where any of these small bodies orbital periods would be a simple fraction of Jupiter s. Several zones of low density in the asteroid belt… … Universalium
Kirkwood, gaps de — Interrupciones en la distribución de asteroides en el cinturón de asteroides ubicado entre las órbitas de Marte y Júpiter, que se producen cuando el período orbital de cualquiera de estos pequeños cuerpos es una fracción simple del período… … Enciclopedia Universal
Kirkwood gap — Kirkwood gaps are gaps or dips in the distribution of main belt asteroids with semi major axis (or equivalently their orbital period), as seen in the . For example, there are very few asteroids with semimajor axis near 2.50 AU, period 3.95 years … Wikipedia
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Groups of minor planets — An asteroid group or minor planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break up of a single… … Wikipedia
meteor and meteoroid — ▪ astronomy Introduction respectively, a glowing streak in the sky (meteor) and its cause, which is a relatively small stony or metallic natural object from space (meteoroid) that enters Earth s atmosphere and heats to incandescence. In modern… … Universalium
