Video Showing Half a Million Asteroid Discoveries

An anonymous reader writes "Since 1980 over a half million asteroids have been discovered, mostly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, now thanks to this video you can see this activity condensed into a few minutes. At full resolution it's a mesmerizing experience as new discoveries are added and the video makes it possible to see patterns in the discovery positions, for example a large number appear in line between Earth and Jupiter as astronomers started looking for smaller jovian moons after Voyagers visit to the system."

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"That's some mighty fine science, Lou."

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Since 1980 over a half million asteroids have been discovered, mostly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

Between Mars and Jupiter, huh? You mean right where the asteroid belt is? And there are asteroids in it? Wow.