Tales of the Heliosphere

Dense is a relative term. The plot certainly looks very dense, but that's just because of the limitations of the visualization. For one thing, all of the bodies are projected onto a single plane. Of course the dots are obviously not a scaled representation of the sizes of the asteroids either. On the scale of this plot, even Jupiter would be smaller than a single pixel.

So, while it is impressive to see just how many large bodies are out there floating about in the inner solar system, the plot does give a false impression of the actual density of the solar system. A graphic or applet with zoom capability would be useful to illustrate the true scale of the distances between these objects (hmm.. a Google Maps project perhaps?)
 

Good point about the deceptiveness of the density. That should have been made clearer than it was in the original post. Thanks for offering your insights.