Kirkwood gap

I have surveyed the Kirkwood gaps with the sensors here.

The Kirkwood gaps were dark bands, empty of crimson drops.

Some of the more far-flung asteroid debris ended up in the 3:1 Kirkwood gap.

At these orbital distances, a Kirkwood gap occurs as they are swept into other orbits.

The main or core population of the asteroid belt is sometimes divided into three zones, based on the most prominent Kirkwood gaps.

The most prominent Kirkwood gaps are located at mean orbital radii of:

More recently, a relatively small number of asteroids have been found to possess high eccentricity orbits which do lie within the Kirkwood gaps.

Dr. Wisdom, meanwhile, was thinking about a different problem, the "Kirkwood gaps" in the asteroid belts.

The Hungaria group is separated from the main body by the 4:1 Kirkwood gap and their orbits have a high inclination.

His 1981 dissertation demonstrated for the first time the theoretical reason for the clearing of the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt.

It was a ring of glistening crimson droplets, slowly orbiting: the asteroid belt, complete with dark Kirkwood gaps.

Vesta orbits in the inner asteroid belt interior to the Kirkwood gap at 2.50 AU.

Alien activity is discovered in a Kirkwood gap; the aliens are identified as self-replicating machines (von Neumann probes).

An asteroid in the 3:1 Kirkwood gap would orbit the Sun three times for each Jovian orbit, for instance.

Malenfant travels in a prototype fusion engine to the Kirkwood Gap and discovers an interstellar teleportation device.

"Or 'belts,' I should say, for there are gaps between the sub-belts-the Kirkwood gaps, swept clear by resonances with Jupiter's gravity field."

A notable exception to this small-difference rule are asteroids lying in the Kirkwood gaps, which are in strong orbital resonance with Jupiter.

This asteroid follows an elliptical orbit through the main asteroid belt that reaches perihelion just outside the Kirkwood gap at 2.5 AU.

This causes the Kuiper belt to possess pronounced gaps in its current layout, similar to the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt.

Interior to this 4:1 resonance, asteroids in low inclination orbits are, unlike those outside the 4:1 Kirkwood gap, strongly influenced by the gravitational field of Mars.

A Kirkwood gap is a gap or dip in the distribution of main-belt asteroids by semi-major axis (or equivalently by orbital period).

The asteroid belt has gaps, known as Kirkwood gaps, where these resonances occur as the asteroids in these resonances have been moved onto other orbits.

It is the namesake for Hungaria asteroids which orbit the sun on the inside of the 1:4 Kirkwood gap, standing out of the core of the main belt.

Kirkwood gaps are gaps or dips in the asteroid belt with semi-major axis (or equivalently their orbital period), as seen in the histogram on the right.

It is the largest of the class of dark C-type asteroids that are dominant in the outer asteroid belt-which lie beyond the Kirkwood gap at 2.82 AU.