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Kirkwood gaps  

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  • Regions in the asteroid belt within which few asteroids are found. The Kirkwood gaps are due to the perturbing effects of Jupiter through resonances with Jupiter's orbital period. (en)

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  • Kirkwood gap (en)

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http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/889

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