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The quest for young asteroid families: new families, new results

V Carruba et al. (2018)

Published
Jul 7, 2018
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · Vol. 479 · No. 4
DOI
10.1093/mnras/sty1810

At a GlanceAI

Searches for very young asteroid families yield new candidates and constraints on their early dynamical evolution.

SummaryAI

Using a targeted search for recently formed asteroid families, the authors report new candidate young families and updated results for previously proposed ones. The work matters because very young families preserve information about fresh collisional breakup and the earliest stages of post-formation orbital evolution. These results help refine how quickly family members disperse under dynamical effects in the main belt and improve the inventory of families suitable for age-dating and dynamical studies.

Method SnapshotAI

Systematic dynamical search and characterization of asteroid-family candidates in orbital-element space.

BackgroundAI

Familiarity with asteroid-family identification, main-belt dynamics, and long-term orbital evolution concepts (including secular perturbations).