The Near Earth Asteroid associations

Abstract

We have made an extensive search for grouping amongst the near Earth asteroids (NEAs). We used two D- functions and rigorous cluster analysis approach. We have found sev- eral new groups (associations) among the NEAs: the objects moving on similar orbits with small minimum orbital intersection distances (MOID) with the Earth trajectory. Reliability of some of these groups is quite high.

References in corpus (2)

• Searching for the first Near-Earth Object family
• Identifying Near Earth Object Families

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• The orbital clusters among the near Earth asteroids