Painted Stone: Asteroids in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from mpa music Watch Video
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Description: Over 100,000 asteroids and their colors, as seen by a single remarkable survey telescope.nnThis animation shows the orbital motions of over 100,000 of the asteroids observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), with colors illustrating the compositional diversity measured by the SDSS five-color camera. The relative sizes of each asteroid are also illustrated.nnAll main-belt asteroids and Trojan asteroids with orbits known to high precision are shown. The animation is rendered with a timestep
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