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Title: The Hoffmeister asteroid family
Author: V. Carruba, B. Novakovic, S. Aljbaae

The Hoffmeister family is a C-type group located in the central main belt. Dynamically, it is important because of its interaction with the _1C nodal secular resonance with Ceres, that significantly increases the dispersion in inclination of family members at lower semi-major axis. As an effect, the distribution of inclination values of the Hoffmeister family at semi-major axis lower than its center is significantly leptokurtic, and this can be used to set constraints on the terminal ejection velocity field of the family at the time it was produced. By performing an analysis of the time behaviour of the kurtosis of the v_W component of the ejection velocity field (_2(v_W)), as obtained from Gauss' equations, for different fictitious Hoffmeister families with different values of the ejection velocity field, we were able to exclude that the Hoffmeister family should be older than 335 Myr. Constraints from the currently observed inclination distribution of the Hoffmeister family suggest that its terminal ejection velocity parameter V_EJ should be lower than 25~m/s. Results of a Yarko-YORP Monte Carlo method to family dating, combined with other constraints from inclinations and _2(v_W), indicate that the Hoffmeister family should be 220^{+60}_{-40}~Myr old, with an ejection parameter V_EJ=20±5~m/s.

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Title: Asteroid secular dynamics: Ceres' fingerprint identified
Author: Bojan Novakovic, Clara Maurel, Georgios Tsirvoulis, Zoran Knezevic

Here we report on the significant role of a so far overlooked dynamical aspect, namely a secular resonance between the dwarf planet Ceres and other asteroids. We demonstrate that this type of secular resonance can be the dominant dynamical factor in certain regions of the main asteroid belt.
Specifically, we performed a dynamical analysis of the asteroids belonging to the (1726) Hoffmeister family. To identify which dynamical mechanisms are actually at work in this part of the main asteroid belt, i.e. to isolate the main perturber(s), we study the evolution of this family in time. The study is accomplished using numerical integrations of test particles performed within different dynamical models. The obtained results reveal that the post-impact evolution of the Hoffmeister asteroid family is a direct consequence of the nodal secular resonance with Ceres.
This leads us to the conclusion that similar effects must exist in other parts of the asteroid belt. In this respect, the obtained results shed light on an important and entirely new aspect of the long-term dynamics of small bodies. Ceres' fingerprint in asteroid dynamics, expressed through the discovered secular resonance effect, completely changes our understanding of the way in which perturbations by Ceres-like objects affect the orbits of nearby bodies.

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