Observations on the magnitude-frequency distribution of Earth-crossing asteroids

Details Observations on the magnitude-frequency distribution of Earth-crossing asteroids Observations on the magnitude-frequency distribution of Earth-crossing asteroids

May 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987pggp.rept...72s&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1986 p 72-74 (SEE N87-23341 16-91)

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Geophysics

Asteroids, Earth (Planet), Planetary Craters, Statistical Distributions, Albedo, Algorithms, Collisions, Size Distribution

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During the past decade, discovery of Earth-crossing asteroids has continued at the pace of several per year; the total number of known Earth crossers reached 70 as of September, 1986. The sample of discovered Earth crossers has become large enough to provide a fairly strong statistical basis for calculations of mean probabilities of asteroid collision with the Earth, the Moon, and Venus. It is also now large enough to begin to address the more difficult question of the magnitude-frequency distribution and size distribution of the Earth-crossing asteroids. Absolute V magnitude, H, was derived from reported magnitudes for each Earth crosser on the basis of a standard algorithm that utilizes a physically realistic phase function. The derived values of H range from 12.88 for (1627) Ivar to 21.6 for the Palomar-Leiden object 6344, which is the faintest and smallest asteroid discovered.

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