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Asteroid Family Identification: History and State of the Art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2016

Zoran Knežević
Zoran Knežević*
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory, Volgina 7, 11060 Belgrade, Serbia email: zoran@aob.rs
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The history of asteroid families, from their discovery back in 1918, until the present time, is briefly reviewed. Two threads have been followed: on the development of the theories of asteroid motion and the computation of proper elements, and on the methods of classification themselves. Three distinct periods can be distinguished: the first one until mid-1930s, devoted to discovery and first attempts towards understanding of the properties of families; the second one, until early 1980s, characterized by a growing understanding of their importance as key evidence of the collisional evolution; the third one, characterized by an explosion of work and results, comprises the contemporary era. An assessment is given of the state-of-the-art and possible directions for the future effort, focusing on the dynamical studies, and on improvements of classification methods to cope with ever increasing data set.

Keywords

Asteroidsasteroid familiesproper elementshierarchical clustering
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 10 , Issue S318: Asteroids: New Observations, New Models , August 2015 , pp. 16 - 27
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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