Recent collisional jet from a primitive asteroid
Bojan Novakovic, Aldo Dell'Oro, Alberto Cellino, Zoran Knezevic

TL;DR
This paper presents a detailed study of a young asteroid cluster formed by a recent high-speed collision with a primitive asteroid, offering new insights into collision outcomes and asteroid evolution.
Contribution
It provides the first observable evidence of a recent collisional event involving a primitive asteroid, constraining models of high-speed impacts.
Findings
Age of the asteroid cluster is approximately 1.9 million years.
The collision was a cratering event with a large size difference among members.
Impact speeds were about twice as high as typical main belt collisions.
Abstract
Here we show an example of a young asteroid cluster located in a dynamically stable region, which was produced by partial disruption of a primitive body about 30 km in size. We estimate its age to be only 1.9 +/- 0.3 Myr, thus its post-impact evolution should have been very limited. The large difference in size between the largest object and the other cluster members means that this was a cratering event. The parent body had a large orbital inclination, and was subject to collisions with typical impact speeds higher by a factor of 2 than in the most common situations encountered in the main belt. For the first time we have at disposal the observable outcome of a very recent event to study high-speed collisions involving primitive asteroids, providing very useful constraints to numerical simulations of these events and to laboratory experiments.
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