Identification and Dynamical Properties of Asteroid Families
By D. Nesvorný, M. Brož, V. Carruba. 2015
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Asteroids formed in a dynamically quiescent disk but their orbits became gravitationally stirred enough by Jupiter to lead to high-speed collisions. As a result, many dozen large asteroids have been disrupted by impacts over the age of the Solar System, producing groups of fragments known as asteroid families. Here we explain how the asteroid families are identified, review their current inventory, and discuss how they can be used to get insights into long-term dynamics of main belt asteroids. Electronic tables of the membership for 122 notable families are reported on the Planetary Data System node.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ecology
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- Rubble Pile Asteroids (2018, background): “…somewhat regularly (on Solar System timescales), and this is seemingly confirmed by the known suite of collisionally-formed asteroid families and the highly brecciated properties of many different types of meteorites (Bottke et al. 2005, 2015, Nesvorny et al 2015, DeMeo et al. 2015, Housen et al.”