Asteroid Families and "jet Streams"
Abstract
The asteroid families of Hirayama and Brouwer have been reexamined. The original families 1-9 are confirmed, while most of the later families are extensively revised (and renumbered). Eleven entirely new familes are reported. The jet stream Flora A described by Alfven is confirmed and extended, and several new streams are added. The search for regularities and resonances in the mean family elements has been unsuccessful. The origin of families by collisional breakup appears best to account for the data.
- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- December 1969
- DOI:
- 10.1086/110928
- Bibcode:
- 1969AJ.....74.1235A