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Asteroid Distributions
 
Data for these plots came from Ted Bowell's gigantic file of asteroid orbital elements.

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Histogram of semimajor axes. Histogram of eccentricities. Histogram of diameters (km) (determined from IRAS data).
semimajor axis histogram eccentricity histogram diameter histogram
Histogram of B-V color. Scatter plot of inclinations vs. eccentricities. Image histogram of inclinations vs. eccentricities.
B-V histogram eccentricity - inclination scatter plot eccentricity - inclination image histogram
Scatter plot of eccentricities vs. semimajor axes. Image histogram of eccentricities vs. semimajor axes. Scatter plot of inclinations vs. semimajor axes.
semimajor axis - eccentricity scatter plot semimajor axis - eccentricity image histogram semimajor axis - inclination scatter plot
Image histogram of inclinations vs. semimajor axes. Diameter vs. H magnitude.
semimajor axis - inclination image histogram diameter vs. H magnitude

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