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[Christopherdel Profile]

Video Created by Scott Manley, this is a 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.

The scale of the video at 1080P resolution is roughly 1million kilometers per pixel, and each second of video corresponds to 60 days.

[Garciaface Profile]

If this is accurate, then forget the whole Tiamat theory. It would have had to have been a planet larger than our Sun to have left all that debris. If this is true, then the asteroid belt is a purposful design by nature to protect those of us (people and the planets) in the solar system from stuff we may encounter as we swim around in the cosmos. We may rarely hit one of these guys, but for the most part they're there to help us, it seems to me at least.

[Giusdude Profile]

Video Created by Scott Manley, this is a 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.

The scale of the video at 1080P resolution is roughly 1million kilometers per pixel, and each second of video corresponds to 60 days.

now that's a very informative video. it presents facts, as opposed to pure speculation.
please do note: we are discovering a higher number of asteroids/comets simply because we are looking at the sky with more/better instruments. one day, i'm sure, we'll get hit AGAIN. it's a mathematical possibility, hence it's inevitable. and i also believe that if nasa (or whoever else) were to learn that one of this objects is found to be on a collision course, silence will be the best way to go.
imagine being privy to this kind of info: what would you do?
raise the alarm, and basically spur the biggest mass hysteria of our history with all the consequences....
or, simply, wait until it's impossible to hide the truth and hence minimize the panic and ugliness of an ELE?

[Christopherdel Profile]

Seeing this amount of asteroids I wonder if anyone would notices 'the one' heading towards us

[Kaarmaa Profile]

This is a very beautiful video, thank you.
I think that people shouln't worry so much about comets and asteroids. We are all going to die one day, no matter what we do. I would rather get hit by an asteroid than by a drunk driver or being killed by a manmade virus. Let the universe and nature just do it's job, it certainly makes wiser decisions than we people do.