Video: Time lapse of the discovery of asteroids in our solar system since 1980

This video is pretty amazing to watch. It is like watching the evolution of one aspect of human understanding take place in a visual vortex that gets stronger and stronger and faster and faster as time moves along. An ever increasing pattern of knoweldge. Or something.

The data used to create this video is publicly available here.

Hat tip goes to geekosystem for this video.

a great many asteroids