The location of Asteroidal Belt Comets (ABCs), in a comets' evolutionary diagram: The Lazarus Comets
Ignacio Ferrin, Jorge Zuluaga, Pablo Cuartas

TL;DR
This paper identifies and analyzes asteroidal belt comets (ABCs), defining their properties, locations in an evolutionary diagram, and suggesting the main belt hosts a large graveyard of dormant comets that can be reactivated.
Contribution
It introduces a new classification and evolutionary framework for ABCs, including their location in a cometary graveyard within the asteroid belt.
Findings
Identified 11 members of the ABC group.
Located ABCs in an evolutionary diagram, indicating a graveyard region.
Calibrated black body temperature relation with perihelion distance.
Abstract
There is a group of newly recognized asteroids in the main belt that are exhibiting cometary characteristics. We will call them Asteroidal Belt Comets or ABCs. An analysis of their orbital and physical properties has resulted in the following conclusion: (1) We define the detached group, DG, as objects sublimating water that have aphelion distances Q < 4.5 AU. The detached group contains all the ABCs traditionally recognized, plus a few other members like 2P and 107P. With the above definition there are 11 members of the ABC group: 2P, 107P, 133P, 176P, 233P, 238P, C/2008 R1, C/2010 R2, 2011 CR42, 3200, and 300163 = 2006 VW139. (2) Active objects sublimate ices except collisioned asteroids, CA, P/2010 A2, 596 Scheila, and P/2012 F5 Gibbs, and 3200 Phaethon who was active due to sputtering. (3)We have calibrated the black body (color) temperature of comets vs perihelion distance, R. We…
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