Yarkovsky/YORP chronology of asteroid families

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May 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006icar..182..118v&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 182, Issue 1, p. 118-142.

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Asteroid families are the byproducts of catastrophic collisions whose fragments form clusters in proper semimajor axis, eccentricity, and inclination space. Although many families have been observed in the main asteroid belt, only two very young families, Karin and Veritas, have well-determined ages. The ages of other families are needed, however, if we hope to infer information about their ejection velocity fields, space weathering processes, etc. In this paper, we developed a method that allows us to estimate the ages of moderately young asteroid families (approximately in between 0.1 and 1 Gyr). We apply it to four suitable cases—Erigone, Massalia, Merxia, and Astrid—and derive their likely ages and approximate ejection velocity fields. We find that Erigone and Merxia were produced by large catastrophic disruption events (i.e., parent body ⩾100 km) that occurred approximately 280 and 330 Myr ago, respectively. The Massalia family was likely produced by a cratering event on Asteroid (20) Massalia less than 200 Myr ago. Finally, the Astrid family, which was produced by the disruption of a 60 70 km asteroid, is 100 200 Myr old, though there is considerable uncertainty in this result. We estimate that the initial ejection velocities for these families were only a few tens of meters per second, consistent with numerical hydrocode models of asteroid impacts. Our results help to verify that asteroid families are constantly undergoing dynamical orbital evolution from thermal (Yarkovsky) forces and spin vector evolution from thermal (YORP) torques.

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