Asteroid Discovery - 1980-2012 - UHDTV

Scott Manley
2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2013–2015
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231K views · 14 years ago · animation · dated

Scott Manley's visualization of every asteroid discovery between 1980 and 2012, shown as orbits that appear as they are found. The view starts with about ten thousand known asteroids and ends with a dense field of orbits.

HN people share it as a striking time-lapse showing how fast discoveries accelerated, and as a related visualization to other asteroid-tracking stories.

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#asteroids#visualization#orbits#time-lapse#astronomy

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@jenny8lee2015 · in “Amazing visualization of asteroid discovery over last 30 years”
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@mietek2013 · in “A visualisation of asteroid discovery between 1980 and 2012”
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@Strilanc2014 · in “NASA launches $35,000 bounty for improved asteroid detection algorithms”
A related video, showing orbits of asteroids discovered over time: ▶ this video It starts with about 10k asteroids. By the end there's 10k being added every month.
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