Asteroid collisions trigger cascading formation of subfamilies, study concludes

Thursday, December 19, 2019 - 12:10 in Astronomy & Space

Billions of years ago, asteroid collisions resulted in the ejection of fragments hundreds of kilometers across and sharing similar orbits. The resulting groups are known as asteroid families.

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