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By far the largest group of Solar System objects in Gaia's data release 3 are 154 741 asteroids for which Gaia has determined their orbits. Depending on their orbits one can distinguish different groups of asteroids.
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Acknowledgement:
Video: Stefan Jordan, Toni Sagristà, Paolo Tanga
Language editing: Paul and Louise McMillan
Narrator: Louise McMillan
Gaia DR3 data used for making this video are available at the following link: https://www.archives.esac.esa.int/gaia
The video was created with Gaia Sky, developed by Toni Sagristà
Gaia Sky can be downloaded from: www.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky