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A Dark Asteroid Family in the Phocaea Region

  • Authors: Bojan Novaković, Georgios Tsirvoulis, Mikael Granvik, and Ana Todović

2017 The Astronomical Journal 153 266.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

Evolution of the Tamara family in the space of proper orbital elements. The four panels in each column show the distribution of the test particles after 50, 100, 150, and 200 Myr (from top to bottom) of evolution. The red and blue lines mark perihelion distances q of 1.666, 1.3 au, used to define populations of Mars-crossers and near-Earth objects, respectively.

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