Talk:List of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2021

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Discoverer chart sidebar[edit]

The discoverer chart is really nice extra info. However it messes up the article's formatting on an ordinary laptop/desktop. Since the new chart has been added we have got the table intro text shown at the top of the article along with one or more rows of the table key (exact number depends on screen width) followed by a gap. Finally we get the rest of the key and the table that the intro/key is related to. The new chart is so long that it pushes everything out.

We could probably improve the chart itself too, which has a couple of formatting problems. E.g. the key is longer than the chart itself. This is exacerbated because the key has a lot of word wrap in it. Finally that chart has a lot of useful info, but it's hard to see the full detail/use mouseover feature with it squeezed in at the side as it is at the moment.

My suggestion would be to enlarge the chart, and give it its own section, rather than squeezing it in a side bar, so that it doesn't separate the main table from its intro/key. This would also allow enough width to fix the word wrap would hopefully mean that the chart isn't swamped by the key. e.g. like this:

Asteroid discoverers by count[edit]

Mount Lemmon Survey (G96): 25 (33.3%)
Pan-STARRS 1 (F51): 11 (14.7%)
Zwicky Transient Facility (I41): 8 (10.7%)
Tokyo-Kiso (381): 7 (9.3%)
Catalina Sky Survey (703): 7 (9.3%)
ATLAS-MLO (T08): 6 (8.0%)
GINOP-KHK (K88): 3 (4.0%)
Golden Ears Observatory (U55): 2 (2.7%)
Kitt Peak - Bok (V00): 2 (2.7%)
ATLAS-HKO (T05): 1 (1.3%)
Calar Alto-Schmidt (Z84): 1 (1.3%)
MAP, San Pedro de Atacama (W94): 1 (1.3%)
SONEAR (Y00): 1 (1.3%)

... or this...

Asteroid discoverers by count[edit]

Mount Lemmon Survey (G96): 25 (33.3%)
Pan-STARRS 1 (F51): 11 (14.7%)
Zwicky Transient Facility (I41): 8 (10.7%)
Tokyo-Kiso (381): 7 (9.3%)
Catalina Sky Survey (703): 7 (9.3%)
ATLAS-MLO (T08): 6 (8.0%)
GINOP-KHK (K88): 3 (4.0%)
Golden Ears Observatory (U55): 2 (2.7%)
Kitt Peak - Bok (V00): 2 (2.7%)
ATLAS-HKO (T05): 1 (1.3%)
Calar Alto-Schmidt (Z84): 1 (1.3%)
MAP, San Pedro de Atacama (W94): 1 (1.3%)
SONEAR (Y00): 1 (1.3%)

There may be other ways to fix this. Alternate suggestions welcome. Rafflesgluft (talk) 12:14, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've solved one of the issues by updating the formatting of the table key - this means that at least all rows of the table key are now kept together, and makes the formatting issue less likely to happen (previously the final row of the key was very long making it highly likely it would run into the new chart and get split off from the rest of the key). Perhaps this is enough. Rafflesgluft (talk) 13:54, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've solved the wrapping issue by increasing the radius from 125 to 150. Still for some sizes of screen we end up with a big blank space but now far less urgent to move. Rafflesgluft (talk) 14:06, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

After previous updates, the wrapping was solved but a stray bracket was going beyond the edge of the chart boundary. Have reformatted the survey names now, putting the observatory code first, and not in brackets, which reduces the length slightly and solves the issue. Also means that the observatory codes are lined up together at the start, which is a bit neater. Rafflesgluft (talk) 08:48, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]