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Title: Asteroids and Asteroid Groups Post by: Astronuc on September 25, 2005, 04:39:07 AM I stumbled across an article about 8 Flora, a rather innocuous little asteroid, but the article lead me to a more general discussion of asteroids, including a number of groups.
8 Flora ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%288%29_Flora ) is a member of the "Main Asteroid Belt" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_belt. Other groups include - Damocloids Near Earth Objects (NEOs) Jupiter Trojan Asteroids Centaurs Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) Asteroids are also defined by families - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_family |