Hungaria family

The Hungaria family (003[1]) is a collisional asteroid family of at least 2,966 known asteroids,[2] named for its largest member, the 11-kilometre (6.8 mi)-across asteroid 434 Hungaria.

It lies within the larger dynamical group of Hungaria asteroids, a group of asteroids in the far inner asteroid belt, with semimajor axes of 1.78 to 2.00 AU.

All members of the family are bright E-type asteroids with albedos of around 0.35-0.6.

An asteroid family is a group of physically-related asteroids usually created by a collision with an original larger asteroid, with the fragments continuing on similar orbits to the original.

This is distinct from a dynamical group in that the members of a dynamical group only share similar orbits because of gravitational interactions with planets, which concentrate asteroids in a particular orbital range.