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New candidates for recent asteroid breakups

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2006

Abstract

We report three new candidates for asteroid families that were formed by in the last 1 Myr. According to our modeling of the past orbital histories of known cluster members, we estimate that the Emilkowalski, 1992 YC2, and Lucascavin clusters are 220+/-30, 50-250, and 300-800 kyr old, respectively.