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Asteroid families are formed as the result of collisions. Large fragments are ejected with speeds of the order of the escape velocity from the parent body. After the family formation, the fragments' orbits evolve in the space of proper…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-03 V. Carruba , D. Vokrouhlický , B. Novakovic

The proper elements of asteroids are obtained from the instantaneous orbital elements by removing periodic oscillations produced by gravitational interactions with planets. They are unchanging in time, at least if chaotic dynamics and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 David Nesvorny , Fernando Roig , David Vokrouhlicky , Miroslav Broz

The asteroidal main belt is crossed by a web of mean-motion and secular resonances, that occur when there is a commensurability between fundamental frequencies of the asteroids and planets. Traditionally, these objects were identified by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Valerio Carruba , Safwan Aljbaae , Gabriel Caritá , Rita Cassia Domingos , Bruno Martins

Asteroid families are groups of minor bodies produced by high-velocity collisions. After the initial dispersions of the parent bodies fragments, their orbits evolve because of several gravitational and non-gravitational effects,such as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 V. Carruba , D. Nesvorný , S. Aljbaae , R. C. Domingos , M. Huaman

The study of asteroid families has provided tremendous insight into the forces that sculpted the main belt and continue to drive the collisional and dynamical evolution of asteroids. The identification of asteroid families within the NEO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hai Fu , Robert Jedicke , Daniel D. Durda , Ronald Fevig , James V. Scotti

At present, approximately 1500 asteroids are known to evolve inside or sticked to the exterior 1:2 resonance with Mars at a = 2.418 AU, being (142) Polana the largest member of this group. The effect of the forced secular modes superposed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 T. Gallardo , J. Venturini , F. Roig , R. Gil-Hutton

Asteroids residing in the first-order mean motion resonances with Jupiter hold important information about the processes that set the final architecture of giant planets. Here we revise current populations of objects in the J2/1 (Hecuba-gap…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-21 Miroslav Brož , David Vokrouhlický

In this work we have estimated 10 collisional ages of 9 families for which for different reasons our previous attempts failed. In general, these are difficult cases that required dedicated effort, such as a new family classifications for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 A. Milani , Z. Knežević , F. Spoto , A. Cellino , B. Novaković , G. Tsirvoulis

We searched for young asteroid families -- those with ages t_age < 10 Myr and at least three members -- using the proper element catalog from Nesvorny et al. (2024). Our approach employed the Hierarchical Clustering Method (HCM) in a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 David Nesvorny , David Vokrouhlicky , Miroslav Broz , Fernando V. Roig

Asteroid families are groups of minor planets that have a common origin in breakup events. The very young compact asteroid clusters are the natural laboratory to study resonance related chaotic and nonlinear dynamics. The present dynamical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-16 Alexey Rosaev , Eva Plavalova

A new family classification, based on a catalog of proper elements with $\sim 384,000$ numbered asteroids and on new methods is available. For the $45$ dynamical families with $>250$ members identified in this classification, we present an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Federica Spoto , Andrea Milani , Zoran Knezevic

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) moving in resonant, Earth-like orbits are potentially important. On the positive side, they are the ideal targets for robotic and human low-cost sample return missions and a much cheaper alternative to using the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-25 C. de la Fuente Marcos , R. de la Fuente Marcos

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between binary asteroids and mean motion resonances (MMRs). For more than 700 asteroids from two catalogues, the Johnston Archive [Johnston, 2024] and the Gaia DR3 VizieR list of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 Natasa Todorovic , Ivana Milic Zitnik

Recent observational surveys of the outer Solar System provide evidence that Neptune's distant $n$:1 mean-motion resonances may harbor relatively large reservoirs of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). In particular, the discovery of two…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Matthew W. Porter , David W. Gerdes , Kevin J. Napier , Hsing Wen Lin , Fred C. Adams

All near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that reach sufficiently small perihelion distances will undergo a so-called super-catastrophic disruption. The mechanisms causing such disruptions are currently unknown or, at least, undetermined. To help…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-04 Athanasia Toliou , Mikael Granvik

There have been 77 TNOs discovered to be librating in the distant transneptunian resonances (beyond the 2:1 resonance, at semimajor axes greater than 47.7~AU) in four well-characterized surveys: the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-21 B. L. Crompvoets , S. M. Lawler , K. Volk , Y. -T. Chen , B. Gladman , L. Peltier , M. Alexandersen , M. T. Bannister , S. Gwyn , J. J. Kavelaars , J. -M. Petit

An essential role in the asteroidal dynamics is played by the mean motion resonances. Two-body planet-asteroid resonances are widely known, due to the Kirkwood gaps. Besides, so-called three-body mean motion resonances exist, in which an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 E. A. Smirnov , I. I. Shevchenko

A collisional family is a collection of >km-size asteroid fragments produced by a large scale collision between asteroids. Here we cataloged 335 notable collisional families in the main asteroid belt. When possible, we estimated each…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 David Nesvorny

We calculate the upper bounds of the population of theoretically stable Centaur orbits between Uranus and Neptune. These small bodies are on low-eccentricity, low-inclination orbits in two specific bands of semi-major axis, centred at…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-23 Rosemary C. Dorsey , Michele T. Bannister , Samantha M. Lawler , Alex H. Parker

The problem of origin and age of asteroid families is studied very intensively. First of all youngest families are interesting due to possibility of the reconstruction their collisional history. But in oldest families present objects with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Alexey Rosaev
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