collisional family

C16331
concept

A collisional family is a group of celestial bodies, typically asteroids, that share similar orbital elements and physical properties because they originated from the fragmentation of a single parent body in a past collision.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
collisional fragment 2
collisional family canonical 1
collisional family member 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: collisional family
Generated description
A collisional family is a group of celestial bodies, typically asteroids, that share similar orbital elements and physical properties because they originated from the fragmentation of a single parent body in a past collision.

Instances (4)

Instance Via concept surface
Haumea family
(120178) 2003 OP32 collisional fragment
(416400) 2003 UZ117 collisional family member
(386723) 2009 YE7 collisional fragment