Identification of a 4.3 billion year old asteroid family and planetesimal population in the Inner Main Belt

Abstract

After performing a reassessment of the known dynamical asteroid families in the inner main belt, we report a newly discovered ancient asteroid family with an estimated age of $4.3\pm 1.7$ billion years. Additionally, we report the most comprehensive list of planetesimals, which are asteroids that survived since the planet forming days of the solar system.

21 pages, 13 figures