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A Census before Rubin of Asteroid Families in the Main Belt

  • Authors: David Nesvorný

David Nesvorný 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 283 .

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The estimated parent-body diameters and formation ages of families reported in this catalog. See Sections 2.5 and 2.6 for the method used to determine these parameters. The color indicates ﹩f={({D}_{{\rm{LM}}}/{D}_{{\rm{PB}}})}^{3}﹩ where DLM and DPB are the estimated largest-member and parent-body diameters, respectively. The families produced by the cratering collisions appear as dark blue dots; the catastrophic breakups with f  <  0.5 are shown in red.

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