About 30% to 35% of the bodies in the main belt belong to dynamical families each thought to have a common origin in a past collision between asteroids. A family has also been associated with the plutoid dwarf planet Haumea. Asteroid Asteroid Until 1998, asteroids were discovered by a four-step process. First, a region of [...]
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Asteroid
October 14th, 2010