asteroid family
asteroid group

In the past, Ceres had been considered to be a member of an asteroid family.

It is the only large member of the Vibilia asteroid family.

Liberatrix is a member of an asteroid family bearing its own name.

There are about 20-30 associations that are almost certainly asteroid families.

Asteroid families can be confirmed when the members display common spectral features.

Some asteroid families have formed recently, in astronomical terms.

It orbits close to the Hygiea asteroid family, but is not a member.

Alauda's moon may be a result of the collision that created the asteroid family.

Present day computer-assisted searches have identified several tens of asteroid families.

In his honor, asteroid families are sometimes called Hirayama families.

Psyche does not belong to any asteroid family.

Undina is a member of the Veritas asteroid family, which formed some eight million years ago.

It is not a true asteroid family, since the members are not physically related, but rather share similar orbital elements.

The survey discovered five new asteroid families.

These concentrations are the asteroid families.

The Augusta family is a small asteroid family named after its first member 254 Augusta.

The orbital properties show it to be a member of the extensive Eos asteroid family, which is named after it.

Hence, it is a classical example of a so-called 'asteroid clan' (see asteroid family).

A number of dust bands, the sources of which are thought to be asteroid families in the main asteroid belt.

A collision may fragment an asteroid into numerous smaller pieces (leading to the formation of a new asteroid family).

Approximately one-third of the asteroids in the asteroid belt are members of an asteroid family.

Kiyotsugu Hirayama hypothesized that these asteroid families were formed by a catastrophic collision with a parent body.

The term cluster is also used to describe a small asteroid family, such as the Karin Cluster.

They do not form a true asteroid family, in the sense that they do not descend from a common parent object.

It orbits in the same region of space as the Hygiea asteroid family, though it is actually an unrelated interloper.

Its changed course was heading the odd light into the dense glitter of an asteroid group.

It is part of the Cybele asteroid group and probably in 4:7 orbital resonance with planet Jupiter.

Asteroids in the asteroid belt are divided into asteroid groups and families based on their orbital characteristics.

See also Category:Asteroid groups and families, which names some less prominent and uncertain groupings.

Hilda gives its name to an asteroid group called the Hilda family (or Hildas for short).

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An asteroid family is a more specific term than asteroid group whose members, while sharing some broad orbital characteristics, may be otherwise unrelated to each other.

So here by artificial means the same kind of synchronous grouping had been achieved as had been formed since millennia in the Earthly solar system between Jupiter and its so-called Trojan asteroid group.

Because of its poorly defined edges, and the location of Flora itself near the edge, this asteroid group has also sometimes been called the Ariadne family, when Flora did not make it into the group during an analysis (e.g. the WAM analysis by Zappala 1995).