A Search for the Collisional Parent Bodies of Large NEAs

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Jun 2002

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Icarus, Volume 157, Issue 2, p. 280-296.

Computer Science

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A search for the most likely parent bodies of multi-km near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is attempted, in the framework of a scenario based on a few simple assumptions. (1) Multi-km NEAs are produced by collisional fragmentation of single parent bodies. (2) The fragments are injected into either the 3/1 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter or the ν6 secular resonance, or they achieve Mars-crossing orbits. (3) The collisional events responsible for the production of multi-km NEAs do not produce observable dynamical families. We show that a limited number of potential parent bodies of multi-km NEAs compatible with the above assumptions do exist in the asteroid Main Belt. It is not clear whether these objects can likely explain the current inventory of known NEAs having sizes around 1-2 km. Our results seem to indicate that the assumed scenario is not completely adequate to justify the number of observed NEAs larger than 2 km. This preliminary analysis must be complemented by a more precise analysis of the rates of occurrence of NEA-feeding events. If present results are confirmed, the conclusion that the origin of multi-km NEAs must be explained by different models, based on long-term dynamical diffusion produced by the interplay of collisional, gravitational, and nongravitational mechanisms in the Main Belt, plus a possible cometary contribution, will be strengthened.

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