In the end, they concluded that many of the meteorites came from just three families. Karin, one of the youngest, was formed 5.8 million years ago and has at least 90 known asteroids; The Koronis family was created 7.5 million years ago and has more than 5,900 objects — Ida is one of them, and was the target of NASA's Galileo mission.
You are viewing a single comment's thread from: