The Flora Family: A Case of the Dynamically Dispersed Collisional Swarm?

By D. Nesvorný, A. Morbidelli, David Vokrouhlický, William Bottke, M. Brož. 2002

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

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Chelyabinsk Airburst, Damage Assessment, Meteorite Recovery, and Characterization (2013, result): “compared to other ordinary chondrites of type H, L, and LL (36).”
In search of the source of asteroid (101955) Bennu: Applications of the stochastic YORP model (2015, methodology): “They assume that VSD is inversely proportional to size D (e.g., Nesvorný et al., 2002b; Nesvorný and Bottke, 2004; Michel et al., 2004; Durda et al., 2004).”
The fossilized size distribution of the main asteroid belt (2003, methodology): “The scenario most consistent with these constraints is the main belt size distribution withD < 30 km reached a quasi-steady state several Gyr ago, with the factor of 2 crease a possible consequence of a recent large-scale d tion event (e.g., the creation of the Flora family∼500 Ma; Nesvorný et al., ”
Terrestrial Planet Formation. I. The Transition from Oligarchic Growth to Chaotic Growth (2005, background): “Traditionally, data from our solar system provide the only tests of clearing mechanisms (e.g., Grogan et al. 2001; Nesvorný et al. 2002a,b, and references therein).”
The Effect of Yarkovsky Thermal Forces on the Dynamical Evolution of Asteroids and Meteoroids (2002, background): “D > 20-km fragments, which are less susceptible to the Yarkovsky effect, mainly move in semimajor axis via less efficient processes like collisions and/or close encounters with asteroids like Ceres, Pallas, or Vesta (Carruba et al., 2000; Nesvorný et al., 2002).”
THE YARKOVSKY AND YORP EFFECTS: Implications for Asteroid Dynamics (2006, methodology): “…hydrocode results of asteroid collisions (Michel et al. 2001), as well as recent asteroid disruption events (e.g., <10 My for Karin and Veritas; Nesvorný et al. 2002a, 2003), are much lower ( 100 m s−1) than those inferred from the orbital positions of more evolved asteroid family members.”
Evidence for asteroid space weathering from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005, methodology): “Fortunately, youngest of all, the Karin and Iannini clusters, are rob dynamical families with solid age determinations(Nesvorný et al., 2002a, 2003; Nesvorný and Bottke, 2004).”
Dynamical erosion of the asteroid belt and implications for large impacts in the inner Solar System (2009, background): “The Flora family breakup event in particular was large and occurred in the inner asteroid belt roughly 0.5–1 Gy ago (Nesvorný et al., 2002).”
Proper element catalogs and asteroid families (2003, background): “Later, Nesvorn´y et al. (2002) and Bottke et al. (2001) analyzed the Flora region and the Koronis family, respectively, showing that the observed spreads can, at least partly, be explained by an interplay of non-gravitational effects and chaotic diffusion.”
YORP-induced long-term evolution of the spin state of small asteroids and meteoroids (2002, methodology): “Motivated by the analysis of the proper element dispersion in the asteroid families (e.g., Nesvorný et al. 2002), we shall determine the characteristic YORP results (relevant time scales, etc.) for small members of the Flora and Themis families.”
Yarkovsky/YORP chronology of asteroid families (2006, methodology): “Finally, their initial configuration in (a, e, I ) space, set by their ejection velocity from the family, undergoes modifications over time via gravitational and non-gravitational perturbations (e.g., Bottke et al., 2001, 2002; Nesvorný et al., 2002a; Carruba et al., 2003, 2005).”
Nonuniform cratering of the terrestrial planets (2008, unknown): “Culler et al. (2000) give a similar estimate, and suggest in addition that the cratering rate might have been substantially larger (by a factor 4) during the time of an asteroid breakup event about 500 Myr ago (see also Nesvorný et al., 2002 ).”
A sawtooth-like timeline for the first billion years of lunar bombardment (2012, background): “In fact, the 4 Such an increase may be due to the formation of the Flora asteroid family (Nesvorný et al., 2002, 2007b).”
Recent Origin of the Solar System Dust Bands (2003, methodology): “Both families have high proper eccentricities (0.15 and 0.16, respectively), which place them in locations where mean motion resonances cause fast chaotic evolutions of orbits (see Nesvorný et al. 2002b).”