File:Kirkwood Gaps.svg

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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. inner main-belt (a < 2.5 AU) middle main-belt (2.5 AU < a > 2.82 AU) outer main-belt (a > 2.82 AU
Date	June 2007
Source	http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/images/ast_histo.ps
Author	based on plot by Alan Chamberlain, JPL/Caltech
Other versions	español македонски polski

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
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