Juno clump
The Juno clump is a probable main-belt asteroid family that share similar orbital elements to 3 Juno.
3 Juno is a large asteroid with a mean diameter of about 235 km, but the remaining bodies are all small. {{mpl|(32326) 2000 QO|62}}, the brightest of those clearly in the visible clump would have a diameter of about 6 km, given the same albedo as 3 Juno. This indicates that it is probably a so-called cratering family composed of ejecta from impacts on 3 Juno.
The HCM analysis by (Zappalà 1995) determined several likely core members, whose proper elements lie in the approximate ranges
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| min | 2.64 AU | 0.226 | 13.3° |
| max | 2.68 AU | 0.240 | 13.9° |
At the present epoch, the range of osculating orbital elements of these core members is
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| min | 2.64 AU | 0.238 | 11.8° |
| max | 2.68 AU | 0.274 | 14.6° |
References
- Zappalà, Vincenzo; Bendjoya, Philippe; Cellino, Alberto; Farinella, Paolo; and Froeschlé, Claude; [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001910358571127X Asteroid Families: Search of a 12,487-Asteroid Sample Using Two Different Clustering Techniques], Icarus, Volume 116, Issue 2 (August 1995), pages 291–314 {{doi|10.1006/icar.1995.1127}}