Collisions are one of the key processes shaping planetary systems. Asteroid families are
outcomes of such collision still identifiable across our solar system. The families provide a …

Basaltic V-type asteroids are common in the inner part of the Main Asteroid Belt and much
less abundant in the mid and outer parts. They are of scientific interest because they sample …

Rubble pile asteroids are widely understood to be composed of reaccumulated debris
following a catastrophic collision between asteroids in the main asteroid belt, where each …

The identification of meteorite parent bodies provides the context for understanding
planetesimal formation and evolution as well as the key Solar System events they have …

Aims. We carried out a spectroscopic survey in order to investigate the composition of 64
asteroids of the inner main belt, which are leftovers of the original planetesimals of our Solar …

Context. Understanding the conditions that lead to the formation of planetesimals–the
building blocks of planets-and their initial size distribution is a central problem of modern …

Context. Families of asteroids generated by the collisional fragmentation of a common
parent body have been identified using clustering methods of asteroids in their proper orbital …

ABSTRACT The Jovian Trojans are two swarms of small objects that share Jupiter's orbit,
clustered around the leading and trailing Lagrange points, L4 and L5. In this work, we …

Method The photometric datasets include both dense photometric data from ground-based
facilities, as well as sparse data from several sky surveys and space missions. Appropriate …

The Hierarchical Clustering Method (HCM) has been the main algorithm for clustering
asteroids into groups of similar origins, ie into families, since the early 1990s [1][2]. With …