On a Scattered-Disk Origin for the 2003 El61 Collisional Family - an Example of the Importance of Collisions on the Dynamics of Small Bodies

Harold F. Levison, Morbidelli Alessandro, David Vokrouhlicky +1

The recent discovery of the 2003EL61 collisional family in the Kuiper belt (Brown et al., 2007) is surprising because the formation of such a family is a highly improbable event in…