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The peculiar case of the Agnia asteroid family

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2006

Abstract

The Agnia asteroid family, a cluster of asteroids located near semimajor axis a=2.79 AU, has experienced significant dynamical evolution. The family, which was likely created by the breakup of a diameter ~50 km parent body, is almost entirely contained within the high-order secular resonance z. Using numerical integration methods we found the minimal age 40 My.