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Sunday, June 26, 2022

Asteroid Families - Cluster Dendogram

This wiki page displays a table of asteroid families.

Out of curiosity, I imported the table in R and I run a hierarchical clustering algorithm on the table taking into account the average orbital parameters a,e,i of the various families.

Then I plotted the resulting dendogram (rotated 90 deg to facilitate reading):