Alex Parker is an astronomer at UC Berkeley, where he researches minor planets—asteroids, Kuiper Belt Objects (giant iceballs orbiting past Neptune), and more.
He took the asteroids in the solar system observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (over 100,000 of them) and created an animation showing their orbits, their relative sizes, and even their colors in the survey.
The resulting video, “Painted Stones”, has been called 'simply wondrous.'
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