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The Hoffmeister asteroid family
V. Carruba, B. Novakovic, S. Aljbaae
The Hoffmeister family is a C-type group located in the central main belt. Dynamically, it is important because of its interaction with the nodal secular resonance with Ce…
The dynamical environment of asteroid 21 Lutetia according to different internal models
Safwan Aljbaae, Thierry G. G. Chanut, Valerio Carruba +3
One of the most accurate models currently used to represent the gravity field of irregular bodies is the polyhedral approach. In this model, the mass of the body is assumed to be h…
On the highly inclined leptokurtic asteroid families
V. Carruba, R. C. Domingos, S. Aljbaae +1
leptokurtic asteroid families are families for which the distribution of the normal component of the terminal ejection velocity field is characterized by a positive val…
On the Astrid asteroid family
V. Carruba
Among asteroid families, the Astrid family is peculiar because of its unusual inclination distribution. Objects at ~2.764 au are quite dispersed in this orbital element, g…
Detection of the YORP Effect for Small Asteroids in the Karin Cluster
Valerio Carruba, David Nesvorný, David Vokrouhlický
The Karin cluster is a young asteroid family thought to have formed only ~My ago. The young age can be demonstrated by numerically integrating the orbits of Karin clus…
On the oldest asteroid families in the main belt
V. Carruba, D. Nesvorný, S. Aljbaae +2
Asteroid families are groups of minor bodies produced by high-velocity collisions. After the initial dispersions of the parent bodies fragments, their orbits evolve because of seve…
Footprints of a possible Ceres asteroid paleo-family
V. Carruba, D. Nesvorný, S. Marchi +1
Ceres is the largest and most massive body in the asteroid main belt. Observational data from the Dawn spacecraft reveal the presence of at least two impact craters about 280~km in…
Characterizing the original ejection velocity field of the Koronis family
Valerio Carruba, David Nesvorný, Safwan Aljbaae
An asteroid family forms as a result of a collision between an impactor and a parent body. The fragments with ejection speeds higher than the escape velocity from the parent body c…
Constraints on the original ejection velocity fields of asteroid families
Valerio Carruba, David Nesvorný
Asteroid families form as a result of large-scale collisions among main belt asteroids. The orbital distribution of fragments after a family-forming impact could inform us about th…