The Augusta family is a small

asteroid family An asteroid family is a population of asteroids that share similar proper orbital elements, such as semimajor axis, eccentricity, and orbital inclination. The members of the families are thought to be fragments of past asteroid collisions. An ...

in the inner

asteroid belt The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids ...

according to a HCM-study conducted by Italian astronomer

Vincenzo Zappalà Vincenzo Zappalà (born 1945) is an Italian astronomer and discoverer of several main-belt asteroids. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovered of 9 minor planets. All of his discoveries he made at ESO's Chilean La Silla Obse ...

and colleges in 1995. The largest members of this family include

254 Augusta 254 Augusta is a main-belt asteroid, discovered on 31 March 1886 by astronomer Johann Palisa at Vienna Observatory, Austria. The stony S-type asteroid measures about 12 kilometers in diameter. It is the first-numbered member of the Augusta fami ...

(parent body) and

5535 Annefrank 5535 Annefrank ( ), provisional designation , is a stony Florian asteroid and suspected contact binary from the inner asteroid belt, approximately 4.5 kilometers in diameter. It was used as a target to practice the flyby technique that the '' S ...

(). In this study, a total of 23 members were identified out of a small data set of 12,487 asteroids. A more recent HCM-study by Nesvorný in 2014 no longer includes this family.

Members

This is the complete list of members of the Augusta family as identified by Zappalà (1995). They are grouped into the larger complex of the

Flora family The Flora family (''adj. Florian''; ; also known as the Ariadne family) is a prominent family of stony asteroids located in the inner region of the asteroid belt. It is one of the largest families with more than 13,000 known members, or approx ...

by Nesvorný (2014), except for five asteroids, which were reassigned to the main belt's background population (marked as BG). *

1058 Grubba 1058 Grubba, provisional designation , is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 22 June 1925, by Soviet–Russian astronomer Grigory Shajn at the Simeiz Observatory on the Crimean peninsula. The ...

* 1608 Muñoz * 1830 Pogson * 2121 Sevastopol * 3355 Onizuka * 3813 Fortov *

* * 5873 Archilochos * 6089 Izumi * * 6312 Robheinlein * 6556 Arcimboldo * 8817 Roytraver * 9282 Lucylim * * 10760 Ozeki * * * * *

References

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