Family Membership
This page provides information on a nominal family membership. We provide a list of all asteroids associated with families, a summary table containing basic information for each family, and a list of members of individual families.
The data provided on this page have been obtained using:
- Proper elements catalogue: October 2022
- Last updated: April 2023
List of asteroids belonging to families:
- afp.fam.members (file size: ~22MB)    
Membership of individual families
Note: this is basically the same data as in the above catalog, but split into individual families.The files are sorted according to absolute magnitudes. A small number of confirmed interlopers have been removed.
Asteroid families summary table:
- afp.fam.summary  
Information on the format of the catalogs:
The family membership table and individual family files:   afp.fam.members
- Column 1: Asteroid number or designation
- Column 2: Absolute magnitude
- Column 3: Proper semi-major axis [au]
- Column 4: Proper eccentricity
- Column 5: Sine of proper inclination
- Column 6: Family ID (a number of the lowest numbered family member)
The summary table of asteroid families:   afp.fam.summary
- Column 1: Family ID (a number of the lowest numbered family member)
- Column 2: Family name (name of the lowest numbered member)
- Column 3: Nominal cut-off distance used for the HCM
- Column 4: Number of identified members
- Column 5: Main belt region (IB = Inner belt; MB = Middle belt; OB = Outer belt)