Juno clump

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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. (32326) 2000 QO₆₂, 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) detemined several likely core members, whose proper elements lie in the approximate ranges

	ap	ep	ip
min	2.64 AU	0.226	13.3°
max	2.68 AU	0.240	13.9°

At the present epoch, the range of osculating orbital elements of these core members is

	a	e	i
min	2.64 AU	0.238	11.8°
max	2.68 AU	0.274	14.6°

[edit] References

• V. Zappalà, Ph. Bendjoya, A. Cellino, P. Farinella and C. Froeschlé, Asteroid Families: Search of a 12,487-Asteroid Sample Using Two Different Clustering Techniques, Icarus, Volume 116, Issue 2 (August 1995), pages 291-314