Eos

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asteroid families

  • asteroid distribution between Mars and Jupiter
    In asteroid: Main-belt asteroid families

    …main asteroid belt are named Eos, Koronis, and Themis. Each family has been determined to be compositionally homogeneous; that is, all the members of a family appear to have the same basic chemical makeup. If the asteroids belonging to each family are considered to be fragments of a single parent…

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