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Tracing escapees from collisional families

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New analyses show that most asteroids, nowadays residing in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, could have originated from collisional events that have broken apart a few large parent bodies.

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Fig. 1: A sketch of three phases of asteroid population evolution.

adapted from LPI/CLSE/David A. Kring; Jupiter image from NASA/JPL/USGS.

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