Figure 3. (IMAGE)

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Figure 3.

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. Histogram of the asteroids with spectra in Gaia Data Release 3. The number of asteroids is in the vertical axis, and the horizontal axis shows the distance of the asteroid to the Sun in astronomical units (au). One au is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun.

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Reference and image credit: Gaia Collaboration, Galluccio, L., Muinonen, K., Fedorets, G., Granvik, M. Penttilä, A., Siltala, L., et al., 2022, Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press.

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