Kirkwood — bezeichnet Personen und Orte: Personen Archy Kirkwood, Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope (* 1946), britischer Politiker Carly Kirkwood, neuseeländische Journalistin und Fernsehmoderatorin Cris Kirkwood (* 1960), US amerikanischer Bassist der Meat… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Kirkwood gap — Kirkwood gaps are gaps or dips in the distribution of main belt asteroids with semi major axis (or equivalently their orbital period), as seen in the . For example, there are very few asteroids with semimajor axis near 2.50 AU, period 3.95 years … Wikipedia
Asteroid belt — For the album by Velvet Chain, see Asteroid Belt (album). The asteroid belt (shown in white) is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets… … Wikipedia
asteroid — asteroidal, adj. /as teuh royd /, n. 1. Also called minor planet. Astron. any of the thousands of small bodies of from 480 miles (775 km) to less than one mile (1.6 km) in diameter that revolve about the sun in orbits lying mostly between those… … Universalium
Kirkwood , Daniel — (1814–1895) American astronomer Born in Harford County, Maryland, Kirkwood became professor of mathematics at the University of Delaware in 1851, moving to the University of Indiana in 1856. In 1857 he noted that the asteroids (planetoids) are… … Scientists
Kirkwood Observatory — Infobox Observatory name = Kirkwood Observatory caption = Kirkwood Observatory, 2006. organization = Indiana University location = Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. coords = coord|39|09|57|N|86|31|34|W| altitude = 235 meters (770 ft) weather = See the … Wikipedia
Asteroid — For the arcade video game, see Asteroids (video game). For other uses, see Asteroid (disambiguation). A composite image, to scale, of the asteroids that have been imaged at high resolution. As of 2011 they are, from largest to smallest: 4 Vesta,… … Wikipedia
Kirkwood gaps — Interruptions in the distribution of asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter that appear where any of these small bodies orbital periods would be a simple fraction of Jupiter s. Several zones of low density in the asteroid belt… … Universalium
Asteroid — An object orbiting the Sun, that is smaller than a planet and has no atmosphere or any type of activity associated with comets. There are three types of asteroids. Irons (5.7%) made of mainly iron and nickel; Stones (92.8%) made of silicates;… … The writer's dictionary of science fiction, fantasy, horror and mythology
Kirkwood Gaps — Empty areas in our asteroid belt … The writer's dictionary of science fiction, fantasy, horror and mythology
