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Significance analysis of asteroid pairs

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2009

Abstract

We have studied statistical significance of asteroid pairs residing on similar heliocentric orbits with distances (approximately the current relative encounter velocity between orbits) up to d=36m/s in the five-dimensional space of osculating elements. We found candidate pairs from the Hungaria zone through the entire main belt as well as outside the main belt.