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The History of Asteroid Family Identification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2020

Zoran Knežević
Zoran Knežević*
Affiliation:
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Kneza Mihaila 35, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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In this paper the early history of search for asteroid groupings is briefly reviewed. Starting from the first attempts by Kirkwood, who managed to identify a number of asteroid pairs and triples with adjacent orbits, via the similar contributions of Tisserand and Mascart, we arrive to Hirayama and his discovery of asteroid families, marking the beginning of modern asteroid science.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 14 , Symposium A30: Astronomy in Focus XXX , August 2018 , pp. 5 - 6
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© International Astronomical Union 2020

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