Juno clump

Juno clump

The Juno clump is a probable asteroid family in the vicinity of 3 Juno.

3 Juno is a large asteroid with a mean diameter of about 235 km, but the remaining bodies are all small. mpl|(32326) 2000 QO|62, the brightest of those clearly in the visible clump would have a diameter of about 6 km, given the same albedo as 3 Juno. This indicates that it is probably a so-called cratering family composed of ejecta from impacts onto the parent body 3 Juno.

The HCM analysis by (Zappalà 1995) determined several likely core members, whose proper elements lie in the approximate ranges At the present epoch, the range of osculating orbital elements of these core members is

References

* V. Zappalà, Ph. Bendjoya, A. Cellino, P. Farinella and C. Froeschlé, " [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WGF-45NJHPF-3C&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F1995&_alid=267428521&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=6821&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000056973&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=2337731&md5=6a0ee5be29f8c0489e922cb06868ae45 Asteroid Families: Search of a 12,487-Asteroid Sample Using Two Different Clustering Techniques] ", Icarus, Volume 116, Issue 2 (August 1995), pages 291-314


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