Cybele asteroids

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The Cybele asteroids (also known as the "Cybeles") are a

inclination less than 30°.[2]

The dynamical Cybele group is located adjacent to the outermost

Griqua asteroids are located – and inside the orbital region of the Hilda asteroids (3:2 resonance), which are themselves followed by the Jupiter trojans
(1:1 resonance) further out.

Description

Three known

903). A potential fourth family is a small cluster with the parent body (45657) 2000 EK.[2] A fifth family, named after 522 Helga, was identified in 2015.[3]

The Cybele asteroids

triple systems with more than one satellite. Other large members include 121 Hermione, 76 Freia, 790 Pretoria, and 566 Stereoskopia.[1]

The group is thought to have formed from the breakup of a larger object in the distant past.

albedos of some Cybele asteroids that are typical for stony S-type asteroids.[2]

List

Total of 2034 Cybeles with osculating semi-major axis between 3.28 and 3.7 AU. Low numbered members of the collisional

Ulla
(ULA) families are also marked.

See also

References