Juno clump

The Juno clump is a probable asteroid family in the vicinity of 3 Juno.

3 Juno is a large asteroid with a mean diameter of about 235 km, but the remaining bodies are all small. , the brightest of those clearly in the visible clump would have a diameter of about 6 km, given the same albedo as 3 Juno. This indicates that it is probably a so-called cratering family composed of ejecta from impacts onto the parent body 3 Juno.

The HCM analysis by (Zappalà 1995) determined several likely core members, whose proper elements lie in the approximate rangesAt the present epoch, the range of osculating orbital elements of these core members is

References

• V. Zappalà, Ph. Bendjoya, A. Cellino, P. Farinella and C. Froeschlé, , Icarus, Volume 116, Issue 2 (August 1995), pages 291-314

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