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Asteroid dynamical families are extremely important for our understanding of the origin, evolution, and general physical properties of the asteroid population. First identified on the basis of their dynamical properties, families have been soon recognized as the products of well-defined physical processes, namely the disruption of single parent bodies as the consequence of energetic collisional events. The identification of dynamical families has opened important perspectives in all fields of research in asteroid science. The “paradigm” of interpretation of family data has been quickly evolving during the last decade and is now based on the evidence of a complex interplay of different physical and dynamical processes, some of which only recently have been fully recognized. In this chapter, we attempt to give a general and comprehensive review of the subject.
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This chapter summarizes the work carried out by many scientists working on the topic of asteroid families for many years. The figures in this chapter were taken by scientific articles written in part by ourselves, but mostly by a number of colleagues. These papers represent some important milestones in the development of asteroid family studies. Our long and fruitful collaborations with V. Zappalà, P. Paolicchi, C. Froeschlé, P. Tanga, and Ph. Bendjoya, have been decisive in building our own knowledge of the subject of asteroid families. Very important interactions with D. R. Davis, E. F. Tedesco, W. F. Bottke, A. Campo Bagatin, A. Milani, Z. Knežević, E. Asphaug, D. Durda, P. Michel, S. J. Bus, R. P. Binzel, F.Marzari, D. Lazzaro, and A. Doressoundiram are kindly acknowledged. Most of all, we would like to remember the decisive role played in this field by P. Farinella and F. Migliorini. We dedicate this chapter to the memory of these two friends.
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Cellino, A., dell’Oro, A. (2010). Asteroid Dynamical Families. In: Souchay, J., Dvorak, R. (eds) Dynamics of Small Solar System Bodies and Exoplanets. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 790. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04458-8_3
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