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摘要
Although it is more complicated to search for near-Earth object ( NEO) families than main belt asteroid families, since differential orbital evolution within a NEO family can cause current orbital elements to drastically differ from each other, we have found that Apollo asteroids 1566 Icarus and the newly discovered 2007 MK6 are almost certainly related. Specifically, their orbital evolutions show a similar profile, time shifted by only similar to 1000 yr, based on our time-lag theory. The dynamical relationship between Icarus and 2007 MK6 along with a possible dust band, the Taurid-Perseid meteor swarm, implies the first detection of an asteroidal NEO family, namely, the "Icarus asteroid family."
- 出版日期2007-10-10
- 单位中央民族大学; 中国科学院国家天文台
