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The Population of Near-Earth Asteroids in Coorbital Motion with the Earth

✍ Scribed by M.H.M. Morais; A. Morbidelli

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
355 KB
Volume
160
Category
Article
ISSN
0019-1035

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✦ Synopsis

We obtain the size and orbital distributions of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that are expected to be in the 1 : 1 mean motion resonance with the Earth in a steady state scenario. We predict that the number of such objects with absolute magnitudes H < 18 and H < 22 is 0.65 Β± 0.12 and 16.3 Β± 3.0, respectively. We also map the distribution in the sky of these Earth coorbital NEAs and conclude that these objects are not easily observed as they are distributed over a large sky area and spend most of their time away from opposition where most of them are too faint to be detected.

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