Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010 HD

Asteroid discovery from 1980 to 2010 by Scott Manley to the music of Philip Glass "In the Upper Room: Dance VII" (Glassworks Extended)

DISCLAIMER: The first upload of the original video by szyzyg didn't have any music & so I couldn't resist putting together the music & the vid. I uploaded this video and notified szyzeg about it. Now I noticed the original video by szyzyg has gotten a soundtrack, but I will not delete this video because I like the result. A tribute to all the undiscovered things in life & our universe.

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Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_d-gs0WoUw

View of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980, as asteroids are discovered they are added to the map and highlighted white so you can pick out the new ones.
The final colour of an asteroids indicates how closely it comes to the inner solar system.
Earth Crossers are Red
Earth Approachers (Perihelion less than 1.3AU) are Yellow
All Others are Green

Notice now the pattern of discovery follows the Earth around its orbit, most discoveries are made in the region directly opposite the Sun. You'll also notice some clusters of discoveries on the line between Earth and Jupiter, these are the result of surveys looking for Jovian moons. Similar clusters of discoveries can be tied to the other outer planets, but those are not visible in this video.

As the video moves into the mid 1990's we see much higher discovery rates as automated sky scanning systems come online. Most of the surveys are imaging the sky directly opposite the sun and you'll see a region of high discovery rates aligned in this manner.

At the beginning of 2010 a new discovery pattern becomes evident, with discovery zones in a line perpendicular to the Sun-Earth vector. These new observations are the result of the WISE (Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer) which is a space mission that's tasked with imaging the entire sky in infrared wavelengths.

Currently we have observed over half a million minor planets, and the discovery rates snow no sign that we're running out of undiscovered objects.

Orbital elements were taken from the 'astorb.dat' data created by Ted Bowell and associates at http://www.naic.edu/~nolan/astorb.html

Don't get the lines & don't know what planet earth is? see here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/InnerSolarSystem-en.png

More explained in the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1306555/Our-terrifyingly-crowd...

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[szyzyg]

I approve of this product and/or service!

[Christiaan33]

@szyzyg thanx!

[wyatt1the1ninja]

omg we r all going to die

[zeta1ret]

brilliant and mesmerizing and frightening!!! (i hope someone has bruce willis' number handy!...(Armageddon reference)...)

[cramtoro]

Universe is such full of amazing things :D Sometimes when i try to imagine the complexity and understand the complexity of the outer space i realize the real uniqueness of all

[tucsonazrick]

Planets orbit Coplanar (in the same plane) because when all this formed it was a huge dust cloud . The cloud collapsed and any spin that is in a cloud before it collapses is increased by momentum. If you notice... most galaxies are spinning like this too. The planets formed from this dust collapse. This is one of the reasons the kicked Pluto out as a planet. It does not orbit in the same plane as the other major eight planets. Just my opinion from reading books.

[NaprejZastavaSlave]

@cramtoro the planets' orbits are _almost_ perfectly spherical. The eccentricity is so slight it's not noticable on an image this small. Also, they're all in basically the same orbital plane around the sun.

[cramtoro]

i wonder why the planet orbits are flat, like a disc. Should the orbit suppose to be more than mmm spherical around the sun and not really like a flat disc with everything circling it around?