I have recently managed to open source some of our tools which we use on the NEO Surveyor mission to simulate all of the asteroids. However my code lacks any real sort of visualizations:
https://github.com/Caltech-IPAC/kete
(note that installation is about 100mb, as it carries a large data file containing high accuracy positions of the planets for +- 100 years)
Is the lack of asteroids between the Earth and Sun an artifact of our methods of detection? I'd imagine looking outward where light is shining on a surface would be easier to detect stuff than looking inward towards the sun at such a close distance.
Is there any good way to plot multiple asteroids while maintaining their relative size ie. handling scaling correctly?
The problem with plotting asteroids is that the "pixel" representing an asteroid is a hugely larger chunk of space relative to the actual size of the asteroid itself.
This gives a false feel of density that the asteroid belts simply don't have.
Demo written by the team from Exodus Orbitals.
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older video but doesn't require downloading and compiling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfvo-Ujb_qk Also if you are worried, here is a good video talking about it https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gBzDC6yMw9Y?feature=share
This is rendering survey data? We don't really have literally every asteroid cataloged do we?
What is mean distance between asteroids? Would it be possible to send probe randomly and have it photography new asteroid very closely every day?
First step to mining a NEO is knowing where they are.
* That we know of.
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TIL about Kirkwood gaps. I knew about Jupiter leading to Hilda and Trojan groupings, but my understanding of the main belt was more in line with a representation like this one from Wikipedia[1]. However, this imaging shows a clear gap and a quick search led me to learn about Kirkwood gaps. Is there a specific reason why the gap is more evident in this imaging rather than the above one from Wikipedia?
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:InnerSolarSystem-en.png
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwood_gap