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The calamity of family break-up

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Asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter jostle for position, and occasionally collide with one another. When a large asteroid shatters as a result of such a collision, it yields a shower of fragments which comprises an asteroid 'family'.

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Gee, H. The calamity of family break-up. Nature (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/news980820-7

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