Classification of Asteroids Including Asteroid Groups, Asteroid Families, and Asteroid Spectral Types

By: Sing, Patrick

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.

Asteroids are commonly classified according to two criteria: the characteristics of their orbits, and features of their reflectance spectrum. Apart from the broadest divisions, it is customary to name a group of asteroids after the first member of that group to be discovered. Groups are relatively loose dynamical associations, whereas families are tighter and result from the catastrophic break-up of a large parent asteroid sometime in the past. Asteroids are assigned a type based on spectral shape, color, and sometimes albedo. These types are thought to correspond to an asteroid's surface composition. This book studies the classification of asteroids including Vulcanoid asteroid, Arjuna asteroid, Eos family, Flora family, and S-type asteroid.

Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1286283760
• ISBN13: 9781286283769
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Webster's Digital Services
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.7"