Every Asteroid Discovered Within the Last 30 Years [Space]

Asteroids! No not the online game-I’m talking about all those old rocks floating around up in space. Here’s a mesmerizing video that tracks every single one of them that’s visited our solar system since 1980. Space: busy place!

The video’s description notes:

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

So basically space is a fair busier place than this video shows-it’s just that before 15 or so years ago we were too unintelligent a life form to understand it. [ Gawker ]

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