After some minor fixes I made to the visualization of 1,509,413 asteroids, and their position in space as of last week, it's good to go for Wikipedia! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:As...

There are more ways to visualize asteroids, such as their location in space today. Here are 1,509,413 of them, plotted to scale with each other (but not to the planets or their orbits). We can clearly see the main belt in white and Trojan asteroids in pink.

🧵 Link to high-resolution versions of inclination and eccentricity vs. semi-major axis at end of thread Proper elements from David Nesvorný's catalog www2.boulder.swri.edu/~davidn/Prop... David's paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

This is a graph of the inclination vs semi-major axis (distance from the sun) of 1,249,051 asteroids in the asteroid belt. Using proper elements allows us to see the belt's fine structure, including asteroid families that are fragments of past collisions. Each asteroid is (roughly) to scale.