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135 Hertha
135 Hertha, a ~79 km M/Xk-type main-belt asteroid, parent of the S-type Hertha family in the Nysa–Polana complex; family age ~300 My, ejection speed ~285 m/s, proposed L chondrite source.
20 Massalia
20 Massalia is a large S-type asteroid in the inner main belt about 138 km across, the parent body of the Massalia family, proposed source of the L chondrites.
298 Baptistina
298 Baptistina, a 10-12 km inner main-belt asteroid, names the Baptistina asteroid family once proposed as the source of the Chicxulub dinosaur-killing impactor; composition and age data now disfavor that link.
396 Aeolia
396 Aeolia (1894 BL), a ~39 km main-belt asteroid discovered 1 December 1894 by A. Charlois at Nice, Xe-type, 14.353-hour rotation, namesake of the Aeolia asteroid family.
495 Eulalia
495 Eulalia, a ~40 km C-type inner main-belt asteroid discovered 1902, namesake of the Eulalia family in the Polana-Eulalia Complex, a candidate source of Bennu and Ryugu.
641 Agnes
641 Agnes (1907 ZX) is a stony S-type main-belt asteroid of the Flora family, discovered by Max Wolf at Heidelberg in 1907, about 9 km across, with a slow 178-hour rotation and unknown name origin.
Chimaera family
Chimaera family: primitive C-type inner main-belt asteroid family named for parent 623 Chimaera (44 km, Cgh, albedo 0.035, period 14.6 h); HCM-identified, EMA 2028 flyby target.