Nysa family

The Nysa or Nysian asteroids (also known as the Hertha family or the Polana family) are a group of asteroids in the asteroid belt orbiting the Sun between 2.41 and 2.5 AU. Asteroids in this family have eccentricities between 0.12 and 0.21 and inclinations of 1.4 to 4.3.^[1] The family derives its name from its most massive member, 44 Nysa. It has also been known as the Hertha (Herthian) family.

Subgroups

Asteroids in the Nysa family are typically divided into two, mineralogically different subgroups: Nysa and Polana. Aside from 44 Nysa and 135 Hertha, asteroids in the Nysian subgroup are S-type asteroids. Asteroids in the Polanian subgroup, like 142 Polana, are F-type asteroids.^[2]

Nysian asteroids

Name	a	e	i
44 Nysa	2.423	0.149	3.703°
135 Hertha	2.428	0.206	2.306°
142 Polana	2.418	0.136	2.238°
750 Oskar	2.444	0.130	3.952°
2984 Chaucer	2.470	0.135	3.054°
2391 Tomita[3]
2509 Chukotka
2710 Veverka
3048 Guangzhou
3069 Heyrovsky
3172 Hirst
3467 Bernheim	2.409	0.149	4.112°
3952 Russellmark
4797 Ako
5075 Goryachev
5394 Jurgens
7629 Foros
9922 Catcheller[4]	2.402	0.190	2.492°

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References

1. EasySky - Screenshots
2. [5.05] The puzzling case of the Nysa-Polana family finally solved ? Archived December 17, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
3. A. Cellino; V. Zappala; A. Doressoundiram; M. Di Martino; et al. (August 2001). "The Puzzling Case of the Nysa-Polana Family". Icarus (Icarus) 152 (2): 225–237. Bibcode:2001Icar..152..225C. doi:10.1006/icar.2001.6634.
4. Zappalà, Vincenzo; Bendjoya, Philippe; Cellino, Alberto; Farinella, Paolo; Froeschlé, Claude (1997). "Asteroid Dynamical Families". EAR-A-5-DDR-FAMILY-V4.1. NASA Planetary Data System.
5. JPL Small-Body Database Browser