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Panels (a)–(c): Eunomia, Hungaria, and Vesta fa...

Panels (a)–(c): Eunomia, Hungaria, and Vesta family asteroids in H–a (absolute magnitude...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Similar to the top panels of Figure 1 but in ...

Similar to the top panels of Figure 1 but in ﹩1/D-a﹩ (inverse diameter versus proper sem...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Distributions of asteroids in the Eunomia (a) a...

Distributions of asteroids in the Eunomia (a) and Vesta (b) families with known spin dir...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Geometric albedo histograms of the Eunomia, Hun...

Geometric albedo histograms of the Eunomia, Hungaria, and Vesta families (data from J. R...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Period–diameter plots for the Eunomia (a), Hung...

Period–diameter plots for the Eunomia (a), Hungaria (b), and Vesta (c) families. Asteroi...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Rotation period distributions in the Eunomia (a...

Rotation period distributions in the Eunomia (a), Hungaria (b), and Vesta (c) families. ...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Histograms of the semimajor axis distributions ...

Histograms of the semimajor axis distributions over a range of ﹩1/D﹩ for the Hungaria fa...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Panel (a): Eunomia family scatter plot, with as...

Panel (a): Eunomia family scatter plot, with asteroids colored based on their rotation p...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Similar to Figure 9 but for the Vesta family. G...

Similar to Figure 9 but for the Vesta family. Gaussian distributions are fit to data in ...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Similar to Figure 9 but for the Eunomia family....

Similar to Figure 9 but for the Eunomia family. Gaussian distributions are fit to data i...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Left: the variation of the function W with resp...

Left: the variation of the function W with respect to the thermal inertia for a range of...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Variation of Gaussian mean (left) or sigma (rig...

Variation of Gaussian mean (left) or sigma (right) with ﹩1/D﹩ for the Vesta family based...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Variation of Gaussian mean (left) or sigma (rig...

Variation of Gaussian mean (left) or sigma (right) with ﹩1/D\,﹩ based on Figure 12. Gray...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Empirical distribution functions (solid lines) ...

Empirical distribution functions (solid lines) of the family data used in our Gaussian f...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Model distributions of ﹩1/D﹩ - ﹩a﹩ and histogra...

Model distributions of ﹩1/D﹩ - ﹩a﹩ and histograms similar to those in Figure 1 from our ...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Vesta model dependence on the fragment separati...

Vesta model dependence on the fragment separation velocity ﹩v﹩. Each pair of panels show...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Similar to Figure A3 but varying the truncation...

Similar to Figure A3 but varying the truncation limits ﹩{a}_{{lb}}﹩ and ﹩{a}_{{ub}}﹩ for...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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(Top) Density maps of the Eunomia and Hungaria ...

(Top) Density maps of the Eunomia and Hungaria families in ﹩1/D﹩ space with pixel dimens...

Stanley F. Dermott et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Latitude–solar longitude (Ls) distributions of ...

Latitude–solar longitude (Ls) distributions of near-surface dynamical quantities associa...

Chali Idosa Uga et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Integrated methodological framework used in thi...

Integrated methodological framework used in this study. Box (1) defines the MCD v.6.1 at...

Chali Idosa Uga et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Altitude-fixed vertical profiles of (a) tempera...

Altitude-fixed vertical profiles of (a) temperature, (b) pressure, and (c) density under...

Chali Idosa Uga et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Latitude–solar longitude (Ls) distribution of c...

Latitude–solar longitude (Ls) distribution of column dust optical depth (τ) during MY 34...

Chali Idosa Uga et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Modeled frequency-domain characteristics of dus...

Modeled frequency-domain characteristics of dust-driven electrical discharges during the...

Chali Idosa Uga et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Reconstructed global distribution of near-surfa...

Reconstructed global distribution of near-surface triboelectric ohmic dissipation during...

Chali Idosa Uga et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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Latitude–solar longitude (Ls) evolution of aero...

Latitude–solar longitude (Ls) evolution of aerodynamic, gas kinetics, turbulent, and tri...

Chali Idosa Uga et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 5

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