Eunomia-asteroid

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Lokalisering och struktur av Eunomia-familjen.

Eunomia-asteroiderna, eller Eunomia-familjen, är en stor grupp asteroider i asteroidbältet. Den är en av de största asteroidfamiljerna, den har fler än 6 000 kända medlemmar.

Gemensamt för asteroider i gruppen är att de har en omloppsbana runt solen med en halv storaxel på mellan 2,53 och 2,72 AU, en excentricitet mellan 0,078 och 0,218 AU och en banlutning på mellan 11,1° och 15,8°.

Asteroiderna i gruppen har också en banresonans med Jupiter på mellan 3:1 och 8:3.

Familjen har fått namn efter sin största medlemmen 15 Eunomia.

Referenser

Den här artikeln är helt eller delvis baserad på material från engelskspråkiga Wikipedia, Eunomia family, 27 september 2021.

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Diagrams showing the location and characteristics of the Eunomia family of asteroids. Where circles are plotted, their diameter is proportional to the mean diameter of the asteroid.

In the top diagrams, the proper orbital elements are plotted (inclination ip vs. semi-major axis ap on the left, and inclination ip vs. eccentricity ep on the right) for numbered asteroids in the main belt.

In the bottom enlargements, one has:

  • core family members (shown in red) are those identified by the 1995 Zappala (V. Zappala et al, Icarus Vol. 116, p. 291 (1995)) HCM method analysis. The data set is here.
  • interlopers (shown in green) were identified either:
    • by the spectroscopic analysis of Lazzaro et al (Lazarro et al The Eunomia Family: A Visible Spectroscopic Survey, Icarus, Vol. 142, p. 445 (1999),
    • and also by inspection of the PDS asteroid taxonomy data set for non S-type members of the above Zappala 1995 data-set.
  • numbered asteroids in general (shown as small blue dots), from the AstDys database.

The location of asteroids that are very large and/or explicitly named on the plot is shown by a light cross within the circle.

Asteroid diameters were obtained from two sources:

  • (thick circles): From the IRAS survey, when available (data set here).
  • (thin circles): Otherwise, by assuming an albedo of 0.209 (same as 15 Eunomia), and estimating from absolute magnitudes from the AstOrb database here.

The diagrams were created by me (Piotr Deuar) using proper element data for 96944 minor planets, which was obtained from the AstDys site. Data was dated March 2005, calculation was by Z. Knezevic and A. Milani.

The top left plot is a slightly modified reduced version of :Image:Asteroid_proper_elements_i_vs_a.png.